[choppaface]

> Disclaimer: I work at Facebook but not on messaging or anything related to this article

Same as "Hey, Googler here. Let me tell you how I'm right and why you should think this way."

> Facebook didn't just randomly give Netflix access to everyone's messages.

That's not at all what the title alleges, nor what the article says. The article (1) provides evidence that Facebook monetized user private messages in a data-sharing project with Netflix and (2) cites court documents that litigate Facebook having Jedi-Blue-like monopoly-preserving interaction with Netflix.

It doesn't matter what the Facebook TOS says or how the tech works. Human users never provided informed consent that their private comms would be monetized as well as used for anti-competitive un-American purposes (un-American as in the Sherman Act, altho creating a monopoly is perhaps very American indeed). And Facebook has done that time and time again.