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 How do you back up the information that Signal was hacked? Tucker said someone saw his messages. I would guess thats some kind of OS tool like Pegasus. Havent seen anything confirming Signal was hacked. 
 https://www.benzinga.com/news/24/02/37385407/nothing-is-secure-tucker-carlson-accuses-nsa-of-intercepting-and-leaking-encrypted-signal-chats

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https://www.westernjournal.com/tucker-working-secret-plan-nsa-broke-secure-text-messages/

Where are you getting the "someone saw his messages"? 
 This shows that Signal is a honeypot designed to be backdoored by the NSA. Simple as that. 
 It's possible, I can't say for sure it's not.
But for a lot of low technical skill users, it is a decent first step. And good for non-controversial stuff.

We can agree it's better than SMS? Well the kind of people who are using SMS, aren't gonna switch to simplex or session. So this is how you get em 
 I think Signal is better than Protonmail. Signal is code on your device, while w/ proton you trust their web app in a browser. It could be switched up on you to get the password in a second.