provided U.S. authorities with data on more than 2,200 users last year, according to newly released data from Telegram.
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For other countries:
Spain
Australia
UK
Malaysia
Germany
Estonia
If you guys have the report for other countries than already shared, please post it here, you can also “Enter anonymous mode” in your account settings if you want to post it anonymously.
Click on Telegram: Contact @transparency → Start → Get report for X
Telegram Transparency Data for all countries that Telegram displays
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This is how stupid the default non-encrypted chat is implemented in Telegram.
But I guess people like to use it like a social media feed of sorts. I used to do it back then and join chat groups of some podcast that I listen to.
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Telegram claimed during many years to be a private and secure messaging app. People just bought it without checking these claims. I’m not even sure that the same people even know what E2EE is.
TG is still popular amoung activist around the world, apparently because of user base, functionality and “reputation”.
If you check the “Transparency Report”, you will find that only a handful of countries are listed and a big bunch of totalitarian states are not listing or claimed to be ZERO.
I highly doubt the accuracy of the so called “Transparency Report” as TG is known for having shady deals with multiple jurisdictions since late 2010s and for good 5 years still claiming themselves “not single byte of user data was sent to any government”.
Besides, some 3rd parties that TG is working with for the “Ecosystem” , including bot hosting, “APPs”, business, TON coin, etc, have excellent track record in involving mass surveillance for their own state government.
On a side note, most activists I met think the main threat would be infiltration, risk associated from TG would be negligible. 
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Telegram has never been private. They reported students in India for sharing notes of paid courses. Telegram is used as a piracy hub in India, explaining the highest number of reports.
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IIRC TG didnt scan content proactively untill recently, instead they almost always rely on user report, then rely on “content moderation team” to “manually analyse” the reported content.
Unfortunately based on personal experience of some activists I know, “content moderation team” in certain regions seems infiltrated by certain state governments, or at least their loyalists.
Btw, If the students shared the materials in a public group / channel, then they really should not think it would remain “private”. Also if they didnt restrict copy function from group settings, they should expect the content could be forwarded to public channels and groups, even they originally shared in private groups or chats.