If we do that, people will say that we're trying to protect FB by replacing a news article with a corporate press release. Is there a better third-party article?

Obviously there isn't!

I don't know what goes into running this site, but personally, if I know I'm guaranteed to get a totally one-sided take, I'd rather have the one from the people who actually know how to code.

>>I don't know what goes into running this site, but personally, if I know I'm guaranteed to get a totally one-sided take, I'd rather have the one from the people who actually know how to code.

In other words, if you don't know how to code, you are probably not intelligent enough to write about a technical topic?

No, there are intelligent people everywhere. But intelligent people are often catastrophically wrong when writing on a topic about which they know nothing.

People who think they always know best are often catastrophically wrong when it comes to writing about the topic they think they know better than anyone else.

At some point, you've got to let people decide for themselves what is true. A single source of information is an unreliable source.

The key word, of course, is "often" and not "always".

How would you know the difference?

It’s not about knowing the difference; it’s about recognizing the pattern and applying the appropriate measure of skepticism. It happens with complicated topics in other fields as well.

I'm confused as to how this is 'improper', if Facebook made this data available why are the developers at fault?

In the context of a Facebook user, what is the difference between data and metadata?

I guess it depends on whether you view this as a continuum or have an absolute "anything the user touched is user data" take. Compare it to a couple of security issues they had last year:

First, the one where the attackers would have had full access to the accounts. Photos, posts, private messages, likes, contacts, etc: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/

Or the one where some apps could read photos that they were not given access to, or in some cases that the user hadn't shared at all: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/12/14/notifyi...