Meta Platforms Inc (Facebook) — Ethics Grade D-

Meta Platforms Inc (Facebook) receives an overall ethics grade of D- (22/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Technology. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 60
• privacy: 5
• consumer: 10
• environment: 75
• humanRights: 5

Documented incidents (3)

• Cambridge Analytica Scandal (high, 2018) — Unauthorized access to 87 million user profiles for political profiling and influence operations.
• Incitement in Myanmar (high, 2021) — Failure to moderate hate speech that directly fueled physical violence and genocide against the Rohingya people.
• Instagram Teen Mental Health (high, 2022) — Internal research leaked by Frances Haugen showed Meta knew Instagram was harmful to teen girls' body image but downplayed findings.

Documented good deeds

• Open Source AI Models — Released Llama 2 as an open-weights model to democratize access to Large Language Models.

Ethical alternatives

• Signal Foundation — Encrypted, non-profit messaging with zero user data harvesting.