You're misreading what I'm saying. Edward Snowden is one of the most hunted men by the US government, and yet he uses Signal, so that's all you really need to know about that part. If the government had access to Signal, they wouldn't need to hunt him so hard. They'd just get access to his information. It's not backdoored and that's proof. And no, the reason why they went after Telegram was because there was information that they could easily get from Telegram. They can't do that from Signal. They've tried and they failed. Again, if the government thought that they could get anything out of Signal, they would be doing the exact same thing they're doing to Telegram right now, but they realize they can't, so they don't waste their time. Instead, they redirect their efforts to compromising individuals opsec. That's the real threat to Signal: poor opsec. Detractors commonly point to the Tucker Carlson "hack" but that wasn't a hack or a flaw of Signal, that was a flaw in his own personal opsec.