Chief Counsel Told Staff Early Not to Use Signal

Signal issues: Council presses City Hall over influencer records as key officials decline to testify

The messages were set to disappear, but the questions surrounding them have not. Less than three weeks after City Hall acknowledged that disappearing messages had been enabled in a Signal group used to communicate with social media influencers, City Council members pressed the Mamdani administration on Tuesday over whether government records should have been preserved...

Chief Counsel told staff early not to use Signal

The influencer issue this summer left the group chat.

NYC Council grills Mamdani admin over communication with influencers

Council members still have questions for the Office of New Media – who didn’t testify – about its activities.

Mamdani admin ordered staff not to use Signal — but they ignored ban to collude with 200-person influencer army

Mamdani administration staffers ignored an explicit order not to use an encrypted messaging app as they communicated with an army of nearly 200 “influencers” to arrange fawning coverage of the mayor on social media, The Post has learned.

Mamdani staffers ignored his ban on using Signal for work, used it for 200-strong ‘influencer’ army: report

"You should not use WhatsApp, Signal, or any other communications app or platform for work."