Some people mistake Telegram for a secure messenger (it doesn't correct them) and recent events only make that worse.
In fact, with access to your message content, Telegram is probably the worst choice for privacy and Simplex folowed by Matrix and Signal are the best 

 Yea you got treat telegram like you would fb or Instagram dms. Not private. They made a great app just sad its not e2e encrypted by default. They might of been semi based before in declining government requests but now thats over. All messages open to govs