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"Telegram has risen in popularity thanks to its focus on advanced security features and the ability to hold secret conversations with end-to-end encryption. ... Telegram was forced to create a team of moderators in Indonesia to remove “terrorist-related content” after the Indonesian government threatened to ban the messaging app."

Wait, how does that work?

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The secure chats are opt in. The normal mode shares everything with the server.

This is probably mostly about the public channels, not regular group chats.

Correct. Moderators only intervene in public groups and channels, chats are exempt and secret chats are impossible to be moderated.

Telegram has public channels that aren't encrypted.

Note that 1 to 1 chats are also not encrypted by default. It must be manually enabled - and once enabled you can only access the chat on a single device.

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