You will need to provide citations on the last point as Facebook are widely known to have broken the gentleman's agreement between Apple and Google that was suppressing tech pay in the early 2010s.
I wish the author could see that, and if the case is valid, to provide it, instead of some pretty tenuous claims of connection strung together to lead up to a demand for money.
I did try to go to the link that evidenced the "multiple" times Facebook was contacted in a 5 year period, but I couldn't get through. How many times was it, for anyone who can?
Read the report, gather data, then criticize it.
This is the core of your point and a comment on the idea itself, not the way the article portrayed it. I think it's fare to characterize your dismissal as glib.