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If a message is truncated at the point of a link in a chat message, the ellipsis becomes that link.
Although normally the truncation ellipsis does not become a link, it's a common design pattern that it does become a link to the full message.
I've pinned a message in the Sandbox to demonstrate (permalink).
We don't use the pattern "ellipses in a truncated text is a permalink to the complete content" anywhere as far as I know. In particular the permalink in the "starred list" is always the time stamp.
If you have this message:
Hey check out this cool link
and it's truncated after "this":
Hey check out this…
then you would expect the ellipsis to be part of the link. I don't see why that should be different if the truncation happens right at the start of the link. The ellipsis being linked in that case tell me "what follows in the untruncated message is a link".
