It’d be interesting to know what Jeffery Goldberg lists as his own name in his Signal profile. He sees his own membership in the group as “You,” but other members of the group would see whatever name he has in his profile.

Jeffery Goldberg said in his article that he was shown in the group only as JG, but it shows JG in the circle because he doesn’t have a profile picture, and Signal uses your initials as a default profile picture. The other members of the group would see the name in his profile, which could be Jeffery Goldberg, Jeff G., J.G., or anything else with the initials J and G.

The point is that the article says he was identified only as JG, which led people to speculate as to who the other participants thought this mysterious JG was. But we actually don’t know what the other participants saw on their end. Was it just JG? Or was it his full name that somehow nobody noticed?

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