WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But ...

the Democratic National Committee emailed staffers to download Signal as the 2016 DNC email leak heated up that year, according to Vanity Fair at the time. "Signal, staffers in the meeting were ...

The resulting press coverage around the leak of these sensitive plans has been driving more people to check out Signal’s app for the first time, leading to a doubling of its downloads.