Elon Musk is helping determine how journalist Jeffrey Goldberg found himself in a group chat with top Trump administration officials where attack plans were discussed, according to the White House.
“Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat again to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday evening, speaking on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle, national security adviser Mike Waltz theorized that Goldberg, the editor in chief of the Atlantic, may have hacked his way into the Signal chat. Goldberg suggested it was Waltz himself who invited him.
During the interview, Waltz also said he spoke with Musk and that they had “the best technical minds looking at how this happened.”
On Monday, Goldberg published an article titled “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.” Goldberg shared how he has added to a Signal group chat with top officials including Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, among others.
After several officials, including Hegseth and Gabbard, adamantly denied that any classified information was shared in the chat, Goldberg released more specific details of the conversation on Wednesday.
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Trump administration officials, including Leavitt, have taken issue with Goldberg and Democrats’ characterization of the chat discussions as “war plans” and disparaged the journalist’s character, as he has been a frequent critic of Trump in the past. The editor and his outlet have stood by the portrayal.
Musk has been a leading figure in the White House as head of the Department of Government Efficiency.