Having actually worked for Meta in both security and privacy capacities, I guarantee you that it's really not that conspiratorial.

No one wrote this article with the intention of "trapping privacy-minded tech enthusiasts."

I mean no offense, but this sort of thinking (that an engineering blog is attempting to attack you) is unhinged. There is not some grand conspiracy. Companies like this are not the shadowy, highly-competent and absolutely evil entities you think they are. They are barely functional to begin with.