You're trying to argue technicalities that most people not only don't understand, but don't care about. The key question is: Did facebook give information about you to other people without your control?
You're basically arguing that yes they did, but it's okay because of the way they did it. Facebook is responsible for communicating that nuance, and they failed to do so. They offered an absolute, and whether they were lying or not, what Zuck said was not accurate.
In this instance it’s quite clear to me that Facebook did not give information about anyone to anyone except to the user who was viewing their own feed.
Would you claim that Facebook is giving information about me to my monitor manufacturer because their pixels are being used to display the information to my eyes?
Would you claim Facebook is giving my information the the people who wrote the code to implement the TLS stack?
Would you claim Facebook is giving my information to Apple because they developed iOS? Or to Chrome because they wrote my browser?
The fundamental archichture of our computing devices is not a technicality. If you equate the fact that our software works using abstraction layers to achieve desired effects with Facebook leaking your information to every layer of software that lives below it, it can only be because you are either grossly misinformed about how software actually works or you are blinded by hatred of Facebook.
You know what, here’s another good analogy. The software which powers the voice calls I make on my iPhone is written by Apple, and one layer below that, Qualcomm. The voice call is only made possible by special APIs provided by my service provider (AT&T) codified through 3GPP. This is like claiming AT&T should be liable for improperly sharing my voice comms with Apple and Qualcomm simply because they helped write the software which allows the call to be made.
Could Apple and Qualcomm be taping my calls? Surely they could be. And if they were, I sure as hell would be angry, but not at AT&T. And if AT&T testified that they had not given my call data to Apple and Qualcomm, they would not have been lying.
The NYT took a Facebook user agent rendering a friend feed, intercepted the network messages, and then gasped, “Look, see, Facebook is sending all your friend information to Blackberry,” as if this was some great conspiracy. Good grief.
You're basically arguing that yes they did, but it's okay because of the way they did it. Facebook is responsible for communicating that nuance, and they failed to do so. They offered an absolute, and whether they were lying or not, what Zuck said was not accurate.