Are Facebook making themselves targets for identity theft? (twitter.com)

Wow.. that is absurd. Perhaps I missed it, but I was unable to find any context from his tweets - did they just randomly decide to ask him for it? Did someone report his account? I'm just curious what would trigger Facebook to ask for such documents.

Also, his reply was pretty funny: https://twitter.com/philippe_kalaf/status/616366907835334657