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Any researcher in this area worth their salt can easily get cloud credit grants and collaborations from Google, Microsoft, Amazon. I pose if you go to Facebook, it's very much about money.

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What actions by Facebook do you see as particularly heinous above what's done at Google?

Can't speak for the parent but for one thing I don't recall reading about Google messing with 600,000 users’ emotions without their knowledge.

But can they get the huge volumes of data they have tagged out? The real time pipelines and internal tools? The community of people they will be working with?

>>> FB and Google are the only ones pushing the industry forward. The huge amount of data and computing power is what brings these researchers, its not all about money. In the long run the scientific advancements from these companies is a much higher positive than the negatives they have in the present.

> But can they get the huge volumes of data they have tagged out? The real time pipelines and internal tools? The community of people they will be working with?

It's highly problematic when a researcher pushes ethics aside in order to gain access to data and chase "long run ... scientific advancements."

the huge volumes of data they have

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

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