It’s still data given to them, no scare quotes needed.
It is if you decide to give it to them. If it's a voluntary feature and not pure data collection, that's the difference. Which means if you don't want to take the risk, you don't provide that data. I am sure you understand the difference between this and the data collection as a necessary condition to provide the service.
And if that data includes your political alignment, like they say in their manifesto, a data breach would be catastrophic.
Which means you will simply decide not to use that feature and not give them that data?
And even if there isn’t one, using their manifesto to promise a dystopia where you are nestled in a political echo chamber sounds like a nightmare
It depends, really. When you choose which articles and newspapers you consider reputable, you consider that an echo chamber? I don't. This is different from using profiling and data collection to provide you, without your knowledge or input, with content that matches your preference. Curating the content that I want to find online is different from Meta pushing only posts that statistically resonate with me based on the behavioral analysis they have done on top of the data collected, all behind the scenes.
I don't see where the dystopia is if I can curate my own content through tools. This is very different from megacorps curating our content for their own profit.