https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200825/07384045173/bridgefy-messaging-app-hyped-as-great-protesters-is-security-mess.shtml

Over the last year Bridgefy, a messaging app developed by Twitter cofounder Biz Stone, has been heavily promoted as just perfect for those trying to stand up to oppressive, authoritarian governments. The reason: the app uses both Bluetooth and mesh network routing to let users within a couple hundred meters of one another send group and individual messages -- without their packets ever touching the internet. Originally promoted as more of a solution for those out of reach of traditional wireless, more recently the company has been playing up their product's use for protesters in Belarus, India, the U.S., Zimbabwe, and Hong Kong.

The problem: the app is a security and privacy mess, and the company has known since April, yet it's still marketing the app as great for protesters.