If you use #Telegram and think that your conversations are encrypted, you are wrong.

99% of conversations on Telegram are plain-text and perfectly readable by telegram-people and the Russian administration.
It is not some weird technical trick. Telegram is NOT encrypted. Never was.

Marketing is (always) a lie.
Telegram only encrypt special “secret chats”. If you don’t know what those are, then you are part of the unencrypted 99%. (and the 1% is badly encrypted).