Imagine the reach that article has, and the vast majority of those readers won't be searching out counter points - they will now have a mental note made that Si

Imagine the reach that article has, and the vast majority of those readers won't be searching out counter points - they will now have a mental note made that Signal == Shady. You have to wonder if it's incompetence or there is an agenda being pushed when things so flagrantly wrong/bad like this get published.