About 70 percent of Ukraine’s population uses Telegram as their main source of news, but the government is worried that the app is being used as a method of disinformation and spying by Russia. They are trying to pivot to apps like Signal instead, but it is difficult to break the habit of such a majority of the country.
No, it is great praise from me that I still use them. But I will purge all proprietary software and all uses of “someone else’s” computer from my life.