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I explained that already in much detail elsewhere in this thread.
tl;dr as a Signal user you are a minority that is automatically suspect to law-enforcement and when this meta-data is overlapped with other meta-data is is easy to narrow down a list of suspects and get legal permission to deploy more intrusive surveillance methods. In addition once that more intrusive surveillance method is deployed on a device, it can read other linked phone-numbers from Signal group-chats and thus those people are also compromised because phone-numbers are always linked to government issued identities (either explicitly or due to payments).