If “tech” keeps doing bad things, and it will until legally constrained or it becomes unprofitable, you can expect its misdeeds to be reported. ...because reporting bad behaviour is profitable too.
A dating app by itself clearly isn't bad behaviour but the "hit piece" you mentioned is about not trusting Facebook.
People don't trust Facebook because of the other things they've done very recently.
i.e. the tax avoidance, the shadow profiles of non-users, the marketing of addictive game purchases to children, manipulation of time lines to alter user mood and everything else in a very long list of negatives that's been in the news in the last few years.
Until some length of time has passed between the way Facebook has historically operated and them acting honourably, each new product they build will be seen through the lens of a bad actor expanding its empire.
