Facebook has many illicit groups and Mark Zuckerberg was never charged with anything. I assume this is more related to privacy where US government has backdoor to Facebook while doesn't have one to Telegram.
> Facebook has many illicit groups and Mark Zuckerberg was never charged with anything.
Maybe because their legal compliance strategy is something other than "we will only, and only possibly, comply with law enforcement requests if it concerns terrorism"?
> If Telegram receives a court order that confirms you're a terror suspect, we may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities. So far, this has never happened. When it does, we will include it in a semiannual transparency report published at: https://t.me/transparency.
FB actively takes down groups and blocks users that (1) break FB’s community standards or (2) do really bad stuff (share child porn, recruit terrorists, etc.). There are manual and automated ways to do this. Users have a way to report bad stuff to FB and to group admins, and FB has a way to send really bad stuff to authorities when complying with a warrant. IIRC the majority of Meta’s employees (tens of thousands of people) work on these safety systems.
So yeah, Meta takes it really seriously. It doesn’t work perfectly because the scale is mind-boggling, but it’s probably the best system of this kind at this scale, and it is constantly being evaluated, red teamed, and improved.
Maybe because their legal compliance strategy is something other than "we will only, and only possibly, comply with law enforcement requests if it concerns terrorism"?
To quote Telegram's from https://telegram.org/privacy:
> If Telegram receives a court order that confirms you're a terror suspect, we may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities. So far, this has never happened. When it does, we will include it in a semiannual transparency report published at: https://t.me/transparency.