Facebook is not a university, so there's no technical need for an IRB but I'd be curious what, if any, review process was done to approve this research? I unde

Facebook is not a university, so there's no technical need for an IRB but I'd be curious what, if any, review process was done to approve this research? I understand that posts I made are in public, but I feel uneasy about a for profit company I am not a user of scanning, archiving, and using posts I made in public to aid their business, especially if they have a huge corpus of data from people who opted into the product. (Also I am using a throwaway for privacy, but I will proactively note I do not have any stock in, nor am I an employeee of, any Facebook competitors. But I fully admit I deleted my Facebook, and I did so because I did not feel like my data was being treated respectfully by the company.) Thank you for taking the time to post this, and sorry to put you on the spot in a public forum - if this was Twitter I'd have DMed :)