It's fair to say Meta didn't give the data, but they provided a platform that allowed CA to develop the app which gathered the data. On the topic of data privacy, that's a bad step by Meta.
At the time the programmer zeitgeist was calling FB evil for having a walled garden and not sharing data. Them opening up the API was applauded by the tech industry and HN (look up the archives). And it still has nothing to do with FB privacy efforts today which is just light years beyond where it was in 2012.
cm2012|2 years ago