Well that is the whole point. The entire controversy could have been cleared up if the original researchers or even Gebru would have trained the model on a "Senegal" dataset, or a dataset diverse enough to their own liking and then make the findings public. That, to me is research. Throwing a fit on twitter because people won't buy that the outcome of this model is racist is not research.
I am not sure why the wording around this has to be so abstract.