Another Facebook faux pas

Tech companies repeatedly slip on ethical aspects

Over the past year, Facebook has underlined in multiple ways the amoral nature of the social media and networking business, in which user data, privacy and business ethics are routinely subordinated to the bottom line and the stock price. More to the point, it has also highlighted the need to regulate it in some form or the other. The latest scandal to hit the Menlo Park, California-headquartered conglomerate, an exposé by The New York Times, has raised demands for the ouster of its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg following revelations that the world’s largest social networking