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Signal still centrally collects metadata and requires a phone number to participate.
If you're serious about privacy, ESPECIALLY if you're part of a group looking to organize in a clandestine fashion, you should look into the vastly superior SimpleX Chat.
per the article
Yes. The client uses what's called "remote attestation" to verify its talking to, not just official servers, but official server code published on github. Read more about it here: https://signal.org/blog/building-faster-oram/
To put it simply, they're using the same technology that allows DRM protected videos to play back on your computer/phone/tablet, but against their own servers, to ensure its not a rogue host or code.