Amid news of changes to WhatsApp's privacy policy, Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, advised his Twitter readers to switch to Signal, a secure messaging app. Investors rushed to buy the service's securities, but confused it with a small company with a similar name - Signal Advance. As a result, the company's shares soared 1100%, writes CNBC. “Use Signal,” read the tweet of the entrepreneur published on Thursday, January 7, which his subscribers perceived ambiguously.

Democrats in the House of Representatives of the US Congress are going to launch the impeachment of Donald Trump for the second time on charges of inciting violence in Washington on January 6. If the decision, which is unlikely, will be able to draw through the Senate, Trump can ban federal posts in the future - that is, he will not be able to run for the presidential post in 2024.

In Indonesia, a passenger Boeing 737 of the local airline Sriwijaya Air, flying from Jakarta, allegedly crashed. in the sea were found Wreckage and clothing . According to local news portals, the plane crashed into the sea immediately after takeoff. Information about the plane crash was received at approximately 14:30 local time (10:30 Moscow time), representatives of the Indonesian authorities said. Now there is a search operation.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that WhatsApp's new policy on handing over users' personal data to Facebook, which owns the service, has accelerated the exodus of customers to Telegram. Over approximately 500 million Telegram users have become a serious problem for Facebook, Durov announced on the evening of January 8 in his Telegram channel. According to the entrepreneur, WhatsApp could move to hidden marketing due to the inability to compete with Telegram on quality and privacy issues.

Twitter has permanently suspended current US President Donald Trump's personal account @realDonaldTrump due to the risk of further incitement to violence. This is stated in a message published on the evening of January 8, 2021 on the official blog of the social network. "After carefully reviewing recent tweets from @realDonaldTrump and the context associated with them, we have permanently banned the account due to the risk of further incitement to violence," Twitter said.