[BullIsland]

With respect, this and pieces like it are not propaganda purely because they point out unflattering details of FB's behavior and that of their affiliates.

Im a techie working in finance and the reaction from most of the non-tech folks here is along the lines of "jesus, the amount of data they have on people is scary! Why do they have all of it? And what's this about android phones being used to send my call history to FB??".

Most folks outside tech use FB for the convenience and have absolutely zero idea of the scale of telemetry being gathered on them. Articles like this are written for the non technical people in our midst and the volume of them reflects the scale of education required for the general public on this issue.

On a personal note I'd say that on the whole people developing a healthy skepticism of just arbitrarily sharing personal details on social media or the internet in general is a positive thing for every society and journalists shedding light on that fact are not doing anyone a disservice.