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Business Ethics in Action Assignment

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Business Ethics in Action Assignment

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BUSINESS ETHICS INACTION
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Ethical issues faced by Google, Facebook and Twitter..........................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTIONEthical issues is defined as a problem or a situation where there is requirement of aperson or a particular organisation in order to choose between various alternatives that must beevaluated as right or wrong (Achtenhagen, 2017). Thus, in following report, Social media sectorhas been selected in which Google, Facebook and Twitter has been taken into consideration.These are multinational companies of technology that are specialised in services that is related tointernet related products or services. These websites or social media platforms includestechnologies of online advertising, search engine. Social media are technologies that are basedon computers which leads in facilitating creation and also sharing of ideas, information andmany other forms of expression via networks and virtual communities. This sector refers to aswebsites or applications that make users enable in order to create and share their content so thatthey can participate in social networking. In this report, ethical issues that has been faced by the three social media platforms hasbeen discussed in deeply with the help of Normative theories as consequentialist and Non-consequentialist. In Consequentialist theory Utilitarianism and in Non consequentialist theoryVirtue ethics will be discussed. Further, this study or report is completely based on various waysin which technologies have been deployed by the people. Thus, the actual focus of this is onmoral character of technology in order to show possibilities and also interventions in terms ofethics.It is not every time helpful that rules are different online. People are having lack oftolerance level for the emails that are unexpected from favoured sites. Thus, crisis managementis the latest topic in which there are some of the things that has to be avoided. Thus, some of theethical issues that is faced by this sector includes Unreported endorsements, improperanonymity, compromising privacy that is related to people, employees that are overlyenthusiastic and also using of online community in order to get free work. Further, if these issuesof social media is avoided than there is no more safety in this sector because this issues can beincreased which will be further done intentionally (Bertrand, 2018). Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company.This company is based in Menlo Park in California. While. Twitter is an American online newsand social networking service on which the users post and interact with messages known astweets.1
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