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It is possible that neither of them are lying and that Signal just misinterpreted what the Facebook ad system was telling them and jumped the gun a bit.

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This honestly seems most likely to me.

It does mean that Facebook’s messaging is confusing enough to cause that though.

Or they "misinterpreted". Plausible deniability enables this win-win scenarion.

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