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by dredmorbius 1907 days ago
False.

See Facebook "shadow profiles", data collected on persons either through third-party activity (though the profiled individual is on Facebook), OR on persons not using Facebook at all.

https://theconversation.com/shadow-profiles-facebook-knows-a...

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/facebook-shadow-profiles-pr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_profile