Instagram is not comparable to Telegram. It is closed source, so there's no way to verify that it's doing E2EE.

> DOGE strengthened the surveillance state. It does not matter whether or not it's tied to a singular intentional plot.

That's not what you originally implied, but no matter. DOGE probably strengthened surveillance capacity within the government as a side effect of its auditing work, but I don't think it added any new capability to surveil citizens that the NSA did not already have.

As for Musk being a proponent of surveillance and censorship, there's a difference between an individual surveiling and censoring users on a platform he bought vs the government using mass surveillance and censorship against its citizens.

After Elon bought Twitter, he is like the Discord mod of his giant server, and doesn't want people to go to other servers. I don't think there's much more to it than that behind the ban of Signal links on X. He had previously banned other platforms' links on a whim as well [0]. He enforces his own rules on his own platform, but he's outspoken against government surveillance and censorship. He's somewhat hypocritical value-wise in this regard, which is one of his flaws, but he's also not the government. And even so, Twitter still manages to have looser speech restrictions nowadays than it did in 2021.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/18/23515221/twitter-bans-li...