Schrems I was 2013, which you'll note is 3 years before the US 2016 election and the covid-19 pandemic which are the two factors that really raised the tempo around the misinformation discussion. It's also 3 years before GDPR was passed, relying on earlier european privacy law and being largely driven by private citizen campaigns (including Europe vs Facebook).

So while the contemporary US discussion is far more dominated by elderly consuming political content, that doesn't mean nobody cared about privacy. You just need to see the furor about Cambridge Analytica or the Snowden leaks to see that that is a concern.

Data privacy is linked to misinformation however in that by tricking you to give up all your data, they know you down to a t. They then sell that info on to propaganda/misinformation outfits and ad firms who can then target too much more efficiently.

Most of the misinformation concerns have to do with what other people are posting, but then people try to contort it into a critique of the platform without saying the quiet part out loud ("we should have a mechanism for deciding on 'truths' and have platforms censor things outside of those 'truths'") because the quiet part is actually unpopular.

> That is definitely not what most people are talking about when they critique facebook.

A whole lot of people are talking more about data privacy than free speech on Facebook, though. Is one discussed more than the other? I don't know -- but I suspect most are talking about neither, and which group appears to be the majority depends on which group you tend to hang around more.