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But it is a different situation. The implication is people posted on Facebook and it wasn't Facebook who ran the IRS scheme by reading the data on the backend, the data was shared by the users. WhatsApp doesn't work like Facebook's main product, it is more like SMS for example.

So the ownership of Facebook is irrelevant in this case.

Now perhaps it is possible to argue if someone hacked into Facebook to steal all data. But I don't think that's the case here.