[pumaontheprowl]

Interesting. My stack ranking of unethical tech companies would have Twitter at the very top. None of the others have caused as much societal harm as Twitter. I saw research recently that as much as half of all trending topics in Turkey were manufactured by malicious actors to spread propaganda. Also, it's just an endless pit of addictive negativity. I once had a girlfriend who would browser Twitter for hours on end and was perpetually angry. Not a good way to live.

Google, on the other hand, has a bunch of products like Maps, Drive, Docs, and Meet that are legitimately helpful and useful. I would have no ethical qualms about helping to make Docs better. This is not to say Google is an ethical company in the aggregate, but there are certainly a lot of roles you could take there that would not require you to question your morality every time you start a new task.

[antihero]

> perpetually angry. Not a good way to live.

Whilst it is unpleasant and not great for mental health, the world is indeed full of horrendous injustice and bad things. Whilst Twitter has it's own fair share of problems, one could argue that anger is a rational emotion to feel about the world.

Being able to switch off from all the problems and just enjoy life is quite privileged.

[Aditya_Garg]

Placing the weight of the world’s injustice on your shoulders and getting angry about it is not an admirable way to live.

[Iv]

Try cynicism today! Signal your understanding of issues and non-indifference while exonerating you of any action!

[voakbasda]

Indeed. Righteous anger should be respected, but I find that any anger now gets labeled as toxic. It is okay to be angry at things that deserve your anger.

[skrtskrt]

Facebook recommendation algorithms have been shown over and over to lead users toward further and further into violent right wing content and user groups.

I use Twitter a lot and my opinion is that it is a complete free for all. Misinformation yes, reinforcing your bubble if you choose to, but also getting things outside your bubble if you choose to. Blasts of information from all over the spectrum, and you kind of get to chose your own adventure, as opposed to Facebook and YouTube where the only way to go is pretty much "more right-wing, more hateful, and more violent"

[GuB-42]

Huh, my Facebook feed is all about feminism, animal rights, and glurge. And I am not at all into that, but I guess many of my friends are, so that's what I am shown. I have a few "right wing" friends, but they are a minority, so I rarely get content like that.

It is just a bubble, it doesn't look like Facebook has any kind of bias, except to the best paying advertiser I guess.

It actually makes Facebook less "bubbly" for me. I get a variety of opinions that aren't mine, they are often controversial (controversy drives engagement), but rarely violent. Twitter and YouTube are much more targeted.

[runamok]

TIL "glurge". Glurge is the catch-all term for "inspirational" tales which purport to offer uplifting and timeless truths but — for various reasons (perhaps they carry Unfortunate Implications, they don't really make sense, or the work just isn't cut out for delivering morals) — are just a bit too hard to swallow. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Glurge

That's how I feel about most of what I see on linkedin. That and virtue signaling.

[antonzabirko]

You shouldn't rank negativity as more degrading than funding war and genocide

[jtmlis]

u can kill blow up civilians all day long, but as long you don't say the wrong word (n bomb or something else) your career will prosper.

clown world.

[antonzabirko]

It really shows how confused folks are when stuff like my comment is downvoted. Oh well, you can't really do much about it.