This is a knee-jerk reaction. Zoom was indirectly sending information to Facebook as part of their Facebook SDK integration to enable login, not directly as part of explicit information gathering. Any app that integrates with the Facebook SDK does this, and they've also patched it already [1].
The supposed root exploit found in Zoom also requires physical, logged-in access to the machine, at which point a Zoom exploit is the least of your problems [2].
Zoom is a solid piece of software, and the developers are responsive and seem to care. I'm disappointed to see it getting dumped on during the past few days. A cynic might even suspect a co-ordinated campaign by Cisco, considering Zoom was started by frustrated ex-Cisco employees and has had runaway growth during the viral crisis, while the same cannot be said for Cisco's competitor product WebEx.
[1] https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/27/zoom-use-of-facebo...
[2] https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/01/new-zoom-bugs-takeover-macs-c...
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