[zenorogue]

I understand not liking Facebook, but they are in Facebook Research (not like working on improving the ads or something), and they publish their research (rather than keeping it for Facebook uses only), and they still do produce new things. So they just seem to be funded by a private company rather than research grants (i.e., taxes). It is not everyone either, Facebook Research has a team working on this stuff, but there are lots of other people too.