[beaner]

> Facebook asked users for permission to grant the apps the permission to send messages, and then when the users approved that request, implemented that access by white-listing the applications to give them carte-blanche access to a deprecated API that included not just message-sending abilities, but full read-write access to their entire Messenger history

Is that in the article though? I don't think OP is guilty of being misleading, maybe just not fully informed. I didn't know this bit, either. Can you source it?