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That does not include a request to approve the read_mailbox permission, which I think should be required to query a user's private messages. This permission was deprecated in 2015. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/11/facebook_admits_use...

On the other hand, Facebook is known to make a lot of one-off arrangements with specific preferred partners such as Spotify to grant permissions and access normal apps can't use. I suspect that money changes hands for some of these special arrangements, or if not outright cash then intangibles with significant value, hence the "selling data" accusations.




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