TikTok, Social Media Outlets Voted Least Ethical in Australia: ReportIn a strong sign of low confidence in Big Tech, Australians have voted TikTok the least ethical organisation of the year followed by Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
According to the Ethics Index 2022 (pdf) published by the Governance Institute of Australia, the nation's overall ethics score fell for the second year in a row from 45 to 42.
TikTok gained the unenviable wooden spoon with a score of -32, followed by Payday Loans (-30), Facebook (-28), Twitter (-21), and Instagram (-12).
“Media sees only minor softening [in its score], but remains well below levels seen in 2020,” the report stated.
Further, the latest news comes as nearly 80 percent of respondents from an earlier poll expressed concern about the security of personal information stored on TikTok, the China-based video-sharing platform....
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