[russdpale]

I don't really think it matters what the research team wants or doesn't want. That is totally insignificant to what the decisions makers want and implement into the facebook product.

What you helped work for was to build a giant spy tool for corporate and government actors. Your own friends, neighbors, and even family surely have some kind of shadow profile on facebook, sleazily tied to other services, packaged, and sold on equally sleazy and opaque data markets.

Personally, I would support the government just shutting down facebook altogether, by force if necessary. They have lost all trust with me, and any benefit to society has easily been drowned by their numerous public failures, up to and including genocide.

Like, once your company is involved in genocide, that should be it. Game over.