> - Messages by default are encrypted in transit. Client to server. Yes Telegram does have access to those messages.

No connection over the internet is not transport encrypted these days, but that is not what this conversation is about. It's about whether messages are encrypted so the server cannot read them. And Telegram is commonly mistaken to have this property, including OP I was responding to.

If you go around telling people that telegram is "encrypted", please stop. You are spreading disinformation.