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> Per the article it seems they demand email confirmation, but merely offer to access your email for you in order to accomplish that.

It's definitely a dark pattern though. And Facebook rarely seems content to only use data for the purpose they advertise when asking for it. For instance, there was an article recently that proved they were using phone numbers collected for 2FA to do ad-targeting as well.

Yeah and they surely won't use those passwords for anything else, like the phone numbers which they promised would be used for 2FA only.

Ok, we'll s/demanding/asking for/ above.

Per the tweets they reported on, there was no alternative. You either have to give Facebook your email password, or you don't get an account.

No, that was an excuse. They use that to pull your contact list.