Comment by eitland

Sorry for my late reply:

> And we know the company has the ability to read messages.

I don’t think we actually know that.

In fact I think they have a system to keep data and keys apart and in different jurisdictions to prevent USA, Russia or anyone from being able to get access to it.

I am no cryptographer or legal expert though.

> How is telegram better from FB messenger?

This is a bit simpler: while Facebook messenger might be E2E encrypted I have good reason to believe that Facebook will datamine my metadata and sell it to however wants to pay.