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: Social Media. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 40
• privacy: 5
• consumer: 15
• environment: 75
• humanRights: 10

Documented incidents (3)

• Cambridge Analytica Data Leak (high, 2018) — Meta allowed the personal data of 87 million users to be scraped without consent by a political consulting firm, which then used the data for psychological profiling in elections.
• Incitement of Violence in Myanmar (high, 2021) — Amnesty International found Facebook's algorithms proactively promoted inflammatory anti-Rohingya content, contributing to the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the minority group in Myanmar.
• Teen Mental Health Research (high, 2021) — Leaked internal research showed Meta knew Instagram was toxic to teenage girls' body image and mental health but downplayed the risks publicly while continuing to target that demographic.

Documented good deeds

• 100% Renewable Energy — Announced that their global operations are now supported by 100% renewable energy for all data centers and offices.

Ethical alternatives

• Mastodon — Decentralized, open-source networking with no advertising-driven data harvesting.