Ask Paul: August 24 (Premium)

Happy Friday. Here's a final "Ask Paul" for August that neatly highlights how I don't have all the answers.
2FA and Microsoft accounts
Polycrastinator asks:
Do you have any advice on setting up 2 factor authentication for Microsoft accounts if you use multiple devices? I switch phones occasionally, and while I've gotten things set so that I get a numeric code on multiple devices, it'll only push notifications to one, and I don't see an easy way to change which device gets those push notifications. How do you handle this, as someone who has to switch devices regularly?
Google handles this nicely: You can use multiple devices for 2FA alerts (which I do) and you get alerts on each. But with Microsoft Authenticator, I don't know of any way other than to manually run the app on secondary devices, sorry.
Social media
Polycrastinator also asks:
What do you make of the NYT article on Facebook use and assaults on immigrants in Germany? I know this isn't your normal beat, but I found this to be really concerning. It's preoccupied me since reading it. Do you have any thoughts on this? I'm used to having an idea on how to fix a technological problem, but damned if I can see a way out of this.
There are all kinds of stories like this these days. For example, Russia apparently used social media to broadcast inaccurate information about vaccinations as a way to divide Americans. Social media companies, like web hosters back in the day, have consistently argued that they shouldn't be held accountable for the content they host. But that's fallen apart over the past few years as evidence of election meddling has become overwhelming.

We're moving toward the dystopian future you see in a lot of science fiction stories, from the Foundation novels to the Alien movies, where companies, not countries, call the shots. That said, I don't have any ideas on how to fix this. I do feel like the big Internet companies, not just social media firms, but companies like Google, need to be heavily regulated.
Read text messages aloud on Android
RWilson asks:
Do you know if there is a way to configure Cortana on Android to bring back the old Windows phone feature to read incoming texts (you got a text from .... would you like to read it or ignore it) I know you can ask Google Assistant to read the last text message, but it's not quite as integrated as the WP was and it's the one feature my wife misses from her Lumia!
This is currently in beta but my understanding is that it doesn't work over Bluetooth. I've never actually used this functionality. Does anyone else use this?
Windows 10 and telemetry data
Sprtfan asks:
Can you elaborate some on how what Google is doing [with location data collection] is just like what Microsoft does? I always thought that Windows 10 telemetry data that was collected was different than what Google collects and how they use the info is different as well. Was I wrong to think that?
Yes. Microsoft and Google collect data for the s...