There are ways to run it and minimize risk. I run ASOP with no Google APIs, in locked-down (no BT, no WiFi scanning, no NFC) + NAT'ed VM, over Tor+VPN, registered to a burner number, with direct-download of the app. And except for that one guy, I use it read-only. That one buddy and I regularly say stuff that doesn't align with our location, demographic, and situation in general. The SigInt on that one is all mixed up. Let them have fun with it. Yes, they could rubber hose him. It's worth the managed risk.
There are good news channels for tracking WEF, COVID horseshit, the attempts to start a famine, etc.
What do you mean by burner number? Are you using your "every day" phone, but with some kind of phone number masking? Also, telegram works for you? Telegram does not function on my lineage OS device because it doesn't accept google platform.
I have a telegram acct, but I access it from my "ghost phone" a stock android pay as you go plan that I pay with an un-registered credit gift card. Obviously the phone only gets used away from home and does not in any way tie to my real life contacts or social media.
The way I see it, the most dangerous thing about telegram is that you may be enticed to interact on their platform, and the data is being sold to whomever. Could be Russia, could be the USGov, could be nestle or the WEF.
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