American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg found himself in a secret chat of President Donald Trump’s administration due to a malfunction in the iPhone algorithm. This was reported by the British newspaper The Guardian, citing the results of an internal White House investigation.
In October of last year, the phone number of The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, ended up in the hands of U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Trump’s press secretary Brian Hughes sent a request from Goldberg regarding a topic for an article to Waltz. In the email, Hughes included Goldberg’s phone number next to his signature.
Although Waltz never called Goldberg, by a strange coincidence, he accidentally saved Goldberg’s number in his iPhone under Hughes’ name, who at that time was the press secretary of the National Security Council. This incident occurred because of a flaw in the iPhone’s algorithm.
The number was mistakenly saved while using the “contact suggestion update” feature on Waltz’s iPhone. This feature allows the phone to automatically associate unknown numbers with existing contacts if the system believes there is a connection.
As a result of this error, Goldberg was added to a secret group chat of the Trump administration, intended for a select group of officials.
