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by icebraining 3004 days ago
You're right that it's not due to the GDPR, but existing EU law already required them to provide all user info on request. See Max Schrems' work, specifically his 2011 complaints to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, and the subsequent Europe v. Facebook case.

http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Objectives/objectives.html