Moxie Marlinspike steps down as Signal CEO. WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton will serve as interim CEO while search for a replacement is on. Signal has more than 40 million monthly users, in part driven by a surge of new users in January 2021 when Meta-owned WhatsApp enacted a controversial policy change that sparked a privacy backlash over the nature of personal information shared with its parent company. The app’s rapid growth has had its share of downsides, what with employees raising concerns about potential misuse of the service by malicious actors.”]
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2022/01/signal-ceo-resigns-whatsapp-co-founder.html