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Stop Using These "Private" Messengers (neat.tube)
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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Whatsapp > Telegram tho, Telegram isn’t encrypted by default

This argument I have never found convincing. For all its faults Telegram is open source. Nothing made by Meta is. When they say "it's encypted and we promise there's no backdoor", we are taking their word for it. I am not a cynical person but I can think of a thousand companies more trustworthy than Meta.