Social media has become the vanguard for big tech’s censorship of any journalism, science, or free speech which challenges the narratives cast by the governments and their mainstream media conduits through big tech’s hegemony. … Now, Telegram takes center stage as the most recent target of this assault against free speech. German government officials have recently called for the messaging app to be reclassified as a social media platform so that it can be subject to strict regulations set forth under the country’s Network Enforcement Act. According to the German government the act which was signed into law in 2017 “aims to combat hate crime, criminal fake news and other criminal content on social media platforms more effectively.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-09-26/german-government-moves-regulate-telegram-order-curb-corona-disinformation