Article Selection

Week 5: Course Project: Article Selection

Instructions

Select an article that highlights the issue(s) you want to cover with respect to your corporation.

Summarize the article, the issues you want to cover, why they relate to the course materials, and some background information on the corporation.

Properly refer to your reference sources.

Refer to the Course Project Overview for assignment requirements and rubric.

Submit the article or issue and background information. Be sure the paper adheres to APA-style formatting: double-spaced (12-point font, 1-in. margins), title page, and reference page. 

Grading Rubric

Paper Component	Description	Points
Corporation Article	Select an article about the chosen corporation addressing a legal, ethical, or political topic and background information.	60

Corporation Selection

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc. will be the focus of this report. With its large market capitalization, Meta Platforms, Inc. is one of the largest companies by market capitalization and is within the top public technology companies. The reason why Meta's user base is so massive is because the company's three primary businesses, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (Meta Platforms, Inc., 2026), already have millions of users

This report will focus on Meta because of the courses focused on law, business and politics. For one, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook in its case against the tech giant for allegedly buying Instagram and WhatsApp to create a monopoly. This suit has raised significant issues under the Sherman and Clayton Acts about the concentration of the market. This provides a good overview of antitrust laws to help with the analysis of the case.

Second, Meta is subjected to ongoing ethical challenges relating to data privacy, algorithmic content moderation, and the psychological impact of its platforms on minors, all of which have implications for data protection regulations, including state-level social media laws and international data protection agreements like the General Data Protection Regulation (Barreno-Alcalde et al., 2026). Such conflicts are a good example of the conflicting interests of the profit motive of business and social responsibility, a theme that is central to this course.

Third, Meta is well-positioned politically. It's an excellent case study of a single corporation interacting with all three aspects of analysis this project has: legal, ethical and political.

I think I'll not have any trouble at all finding a current, substantive article in Week 5 that is about a particular legal, ethical, or political issue that is raised in relation to Meta, because there's so much going on in the business world as well as in the legal, ethical, and political arenas.

References

Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 560 F. Supp. 3d 1 (D.D.C. 2020).