It's not on by default, works only between 2 devices, they both have to be online at the same time and you can't access anything from the web. And group chats don't support it at all. Private chats are not end to end encrypted by default and it's actually quite clumsy to encrypt them so almost nobody uses it.

It's really weird that Telegram is singled out like this.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-to-staff-switc...

>The European Commission has told its staff to start using Signal, an end-to-end-encrypted messaging app, in a push to increase the security of its communications.

Also Telegram is not E2E by default. You need to activate it per chat. By default and in groups it is only server encrypted.

Most use normal chats.

With anonymous accounts, using anonymous +888 numbers, whose price has increased from $16 to $1000+ in a matter of a year, it is indeed a very convenient playground for all sorts of activities.

They actually don't want that backdoored, guaranteed.