FB could track a lot more through Giphy just like they do with their like buttons. It's too late to do something against the acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram but maybe they have learned that's a huge mistake to let FB acquire such services. They are not obliged to repeat their mistakes.

IP address and gif search term might be a valuable data point to add about a person.

With the Slack integration, someone using `/giphy searchterm` will send over things like: slack enterprise ID, team ID, user ID, the team's domain, their name, the slack workspace's name, etc...

Facebook could quite easily use that data to draw more connections between people. Who they work with, who they might know within the same teams and enterprises, etc. etc.

No, that's incorrect. The giphy command is created by Slack and doesn't share any data with Giphy [1].

[1] https://medium.com/delta-cx/facebook-bought-giphy-but-doesnt...

And at what point does FB use their considerable might to replace Slack's giphy bot with one that FB makes?

The article basically says that Slack made a special case for Giphy, and so they decided that Giphy in particular doesn't get the same treatment as your typical slack bot or slash command.

So, all FB needs to do is block that integration and either force their own or negotiate a new setup with slack. "You have a command called giphy and giphy is our trademark, so stop."

The article you link to explains all of this, so I don't think you've refuted my point, really, except to say that it doesn't happen right now.

That says "...designed to give Giphy nearly zero data.", unclear what is still shared.

Signal goes to great lengths to preserve privacy with their giphy integration: https://signal.org/blog/signal-and-giphy-update/

Facebook already has it with or without Giphy.

If you don't use any FB services they don't, but with Giphy any messenger using it could be forced.