The division right now isn't about the money, it's about Joi Ito and his decision to legitimize Epstein and invite him to be around the Lab. In addition to the risks he already took, there's the question of whether he can be trusted to exhibit better judgement in the future or not.

Here are the results of some human trafficking research I did just now: Epstein was awful, everyone knew he was awful, and nobody in polite society should have associated with him.

OK, what do you want to do with the rest of the money? Develop an app that tells you not to pal around with pedophiles? Maybe we'll make a green laptop with an OLED screen and give it to children so we know who not to let the pedophile near? Seriously, what needs to be researched here? The gap is not a lack of research, it's a lack of moral resolve to do what everyone knows the right thing is.