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Nope, because Facebook app is not a VPN service so it cannot intercept traffic.
What it is unclear from the article is how they circumvented the certificate check on the app side. Probably (given this was many years ago, maybe these apps weren't setupping certificate pinning/HPKP)
In theory, yes. In practice of they found some sort of exploit that allowed this I'd 100% not be surprised if Meta took advantage of it. Facebook app is malware