Facebook doesn't give me a straight answer, when I ask them questions about their policies, even when my questions aren't answered by their policies. The job of the privacy team within Facebook is not privacy: it's reducing liability.
Obviously not: if I had, I'd have inside contacts I could ask, instead of having to bother their public relations people to beg for scraps of intel about what they're doing with my information, while they act
I don't believe they've lied to me – I'm not so uncharitable as to assume their incorrect "it's written in the policy!" claims were deliberate lies –, but they're certainly not forthcoming.