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Today, Explained

Huge week for the group chat

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week offered some lessons on, among other things, how to text responsibly 👊🇺🇸🔥 This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey and Avishay Artsy, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Further reading: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal, Texting do's and don'ts for 2024. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz holds up a posterboard showing emojis used by President Trump's national security officials in the Houthi group text chat. Image courtesy of the office of Jared Moskowitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's been a huge week for the group chat.

0:03.0

Not one of yours, certainly not one of mine.

0:06.0

I'm talking about the Houthi PC small group chat, of course.

0:11.0

But you've never talked to him before, so how's the number on your phone?

0:15.0

I mean, I'm not an expert on any of this, but it's just curious, how is the number on your phone?

0:18.0

Well, if you have somebody else's contact, and then it, and then somehow it gets sucked in.

0:23.3

It gets sucked in.

0:24.5

Nobody's texting war plans.

0:26.6

As a matter of fact, they even change the title two attack plans.

0:29.8

Now it turns out, Judge Bozberg has actually been assigned to another high profile case.

0:35.1

This one surrounding the fallout from the signal messages in the Atlantic article, which we've

0:39.3

been talking about all day, right?

0:43.3

Never before has the group chat been subject to this kind of scrutiny, and it's been a great

0:48.3

reminder that we have lost our way.

0:50.3

On today explained, we're going to talk about texting and how we kind of forgot how to

0:55.6

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1:15.6

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