I don’t want to go all conspiracy theorist, but there seems to have been a serious push to villify Signal over the last year or so.

If Musk fully crosses Trump, I wouldn’t be surprised if suddenly starlink and spacex were labeled as threats to national security.

Sadly, a bunch of things people buy are American owned but sold under a more local brand name, especially food or snack items, but also many other things.

For example: A scary amount of Europeans don’t know that Mondelēz International is an American company. It was started by Kraft, famous for their “processed cheese product”. And they own brands like Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Marabou/Freia, etc.

Coca-Cola also own a lot of “local” flavoured drinks.