Evidence since April 2024 shows no U.S. federal move comparable to the TikTok divest‑or‑ban law that specifically targets Telegram for a nationwide restriction or ban.

Key points:

• The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, signed April 24, 2024, is written to explicitly and uniquely target TikTok and other ByteDance‑controlled apps, not Telegram. Its designation language and enforcement provisions are tailored to ByteDance and its subsidiaries, with no similar statutory designation of Telegram as a foreign‑adversary app. (en.wikipedia.org)

• As of late 2025, Telegram remains freely available in U.S. app stores and widely used. Overviews of Telegram’s legal status and global censorship list multiple countries that have blocked or restricted Telegram (Iran, Russia historically, China, Vietnam, Nepal, etc.), but do not list the United States as having imposed an operational ban or broad nationwide restriction on the service. (en.wikipedia.org)

• Post‑2024 U.S. legislative and policy activity that mentions Telegram has focused on threat assessments and research, not bans. For example, Homeland Security Subcommittee legislation requires DHS to conduct annual terrorism‑threat assessments of terrorist organizations’ use of “foreign cloud‑based mobile and desktop messaging applications like Telegram,” and related press releases explicitly group Telegram with other platforms (TikTok, etc.) in the context of studying online radicalization. These measures do not restrict user access to Telegram or order app‑store removal. (homeland.house.gov)

• Some state‑level and government‑device policies classify Telegram as a “high‑risk app” and ban it on state networks or devices (e.g., Montana’s 2023 ban on Telegram, WeChat, and Temu on government devices; North Carolina’s SB 83 proposal likewise listing TikTok, WeChat, and Telegram as high‑risk for public networks and devices). Those are limited, pre‑ and post‑2024 device/network rules, not a new, nationwide effort to ban or severely limit Telegram’s operation for the general public after the TikTok law. (itechpost.com)

• After the April 2024 TikTok law, the most aggressive actual restrictions in the U.S. have continued to fall on ByteDance products (TikTok and related apps) and, separately, on some newer Chinese apps like DeepSeek, RedNote/Xiaohongshu, and Lemon8, which have been targeted for bans on government devices in states like Texas. There is no comparable post‑law action singling out Telegram as “next on the hit list.” (en.wikipedia.org)

Together, this shows that while Telegram has drawn political and security scrutiny in U.S. discourse, the prediction that it would be the next major foreign‑owned communication app to face U.S. government efforts to significantly restrict or ban its operation—in a way analogous to TikTok’s divest‑or‑ban regime—has not materialized as of November 30, 2025.