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> a social media platform. It did so without robust security features like end-to-end encryption

Most social media platforms doesn't support e2ee.

Some chat apps do support e2ee but also requires a god damn phone number to login (yeah so does telegram), this makes "encryption" useless because authorities just ask the teleco to hand out the login SMS code.

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The author of this article makes the point that social media is its key feature, but they still advertise Telegram as an encrypted messenger. So your messages to friends will be on Telegram, they're there for the social network, and they will be unencrypted because they don't support E2EE for group chats and deliberately hide the "secret chats" function.