> “Did partners get access to messages? Yes. But people had to explicitly sign in to Facebook first to use a partner’s messaging feature. Take Spotify for example. After signing in to your Facebook account in Spotify’s desktop app, you could then send and receive messages without ever leaving the app.”
Of course this is true. The media reports complete nonsense like "everyone had access to all your messages and your microphone and everything else ever on you and Zuckerberg sucks" and the truth is always, always that the users agreed to give up permissions and the permissions were actually pretty finely controlled. (Or Facebook was hacked.)
But that doesn't sell, so instead people conflate some data sharing with NSA-level conspiracy trolls and drum up bullshit media reports that they know Facebook cannot effectively fight since everyone currently hates them. It's absolute trash journalism.
Of course this is true. The media reports complete nonsense like "everyone had access to all your messages and your microphone and everything else ever on you and Zuckerberg sucks" and the truth is always, always that the users agreed to give up permissions and the permissions were actually pretty finely controlled. (Or Facebook was hacked.)
But that doesn't sell, so instead people conflate some data sharing with NSA-level conspiracy trolls and drum up bullshit media reports that they know Facebook cannot effectively fight since everyone currently hates them. It's absolute trash journalism.