While I did not read the papers associated, I am struggling to believe that something made accessible to everyone by only requiring the power of a phone is going to be free from abuse by people with the power of full desktop computers.
They have needlessly lengthy explanations which led me to believe it was not trustworthy, and that perhaps it was so lengthy to make the subject appear more complex than it really is. However, on further inspection, it appears that it was started by Stanford graduates - take from that what you will.