> I'm no fan of Facebook but if they didn't stop the research they could be found guilty again for the exact same reason The people that run Facebook are vain,

> I'm no fan of Facebook but if they didn't stop the research they could be found guilty again for the exact same reason The people that run Facebook are vain, greedy, and utterly uninterested in the public good, but they are not stupid and are almost certainly aware of the existence of telephones and email. They undoubtedly understood that banning a public interest research group is a fundamentally different activity than banning advertising firms or other commercial actors, and had they been interested in actually following the law here this would have involved communication with FTC about what they should do in this situation. It apparently didn’t.