Comment by venzaspa
8 hours ago
Why not settle on a chat which actually uses e2e encryption by default though?
There's truth to the Russophile comment though, Telegram is regularly used by GRU and the FSB to recruit people to commit acts of vandalism and terror and is pretty well documented. It's also commonly used to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories. My mum has fallen for several of these via Telegram.
Sorry for your mum. FWIW you have the same content on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit.
Telegram has a larger Russian speaking audience because of the founder, who created VK in Russia. But that doesn’t make it Russophile. Ukraine is organizing pretty much all their resistance on Telegram…
The public channels are where the trash content is, I’ve never used them myself, you have to explicitly look for that feature, it’s not like they are shown in the chat interface directly.
> Why not settle on a chat which actually uses e2e encryption by default though?
Because I care more about the quality of user experience, and Telegram has been awesome to use since I first tried it