> I check every time some tech outlet posts the usual, dumb, silly FB post about how presumably FB leaks or ingests your data...and they're always leaking your data to FB, among other, far sketchier players.

Newflash: the developers that make technology choices for the website and the journalists writing the articles for it are in entirely different organizations. It's usually dysfunctional when business users have the power to dictate technology choices to the tech team.