https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/13/telegram-ceo-says-app-will-continue-to-host-war-related-content-after-coming-under-fire-for-hamas-videos/

As social platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Meta and TikTok face off with regulators and the theater of public opinion for how they are handling incendiary and graphic content, disinformation, writing and other media related to Hamas and Israel, Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, has controversially come out to defend how his messaging app is not taking down some of the more sensitive war-related coverage that can be found on there, claiming that it can prove to be an important channel for information.

He also went on to distinguish it from social media, since users only see content to which they subscribe. (Yes, that does not take into account how content posted on Telegram gets shared.)