[godelski]

It's not too hard to get a temporary voip phone number if required to sign up for a service, but when I signed up this wasn't needed. Just don't use your phone. You can also get dummy, private, or temporary email addresses. Yeah, the scraping makes things harder, but it's perfectly doable to get these services completely anonymously. I mean hell, NYT, WP, CNN, Reuters, etc all have Signal and most have Secure drop, which is via Tor, to connect to them. Interestingly it looks like Fox is the only major platform not have any method I could find from a single search.