There is a difference though, Twitter is usually critiqued for its user's behavior, not really for its own decisions. You can have a decent Twitter (or even Instagram) experience if you don't follow toxic people. Twitter is mostly a mirror of our behavior, the company itself isn't really actively evil.

On the other hand you can't really escape Google as they are actively trying to insert themselves into everything. And Facebook is a bit of both, toxic communities and trying to be everywhere.

Twitter's own decisions regarding labeling disinformation are widely panned by right-wing circles and government. Twitter CEO Dorsey has been in congressional hearings multiple times over this.

> Google's public image is slightly better than that of Facebook

Well, it depends who you ask. You can stop using FB, but not using Google products, even passively. is practically impossible.

Stopping using Facebook is easy. Stopping being used by Facebook is just as hard if not more.

Facebook has its spyware embedded in the majority of apps out there, most companies willingly share their customers' personal details with them for ad targeting purposes and Facebook uses social engineering to trick people into sharing their contacts list which includes your details.

It is better, but it shouldn't be. Google has destroyed or reshaped entire industries with their surveillance subsidized pricing model.

Just one person, but ranked from worst to best it's definitely

Facebook is better than Google is better than Twitter

Twitter has a big impact socially, but they're so much smaller than fb and google, it's hard to put them in the same league

Too late to edit or delete my comment here, but for the record I meant to say Facebook is WORSE than Google is WORSE than Twitter. I had '>' symbols and then decided to switch it to words without fully thinking thru the semantic meaning. Oops :(

Nothing 'definite' about those statements, they are just opinions, as we all have.

I'd say FB is worst because of their reuse and reselling of personal data, their deliberate designs of making their service more and more invasive, their purchase of competing services and monopolised approach to everything. Google are no saints either, not by a long stretch. Twitter has far more influence than anyone would expect

Facebook is absolutely worse than google, in addition to doing all of the horrific things google does, they’ve sold “privacy” VPNs that recorded information, repeatedly lied and reneged on promises.

Google got caught operating a service extremely similar to Onavo. It's called Screenwise Meter.

Identically to how Facebook was exploited enterprise certificates to circumvent the App Store policy, Google was doing the exact same: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-da...

While they backed off on iOS when they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, Google kept it running on Android until this month, well over a year after Facebook shut down Onavo: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/03/googles-screenwise-...

It's incredible to me that Facebook still has a worse image than Google: Google can do the exact same thing, for longer, and still people treat Facebook like they're a degree worse for some reason. Both ad companies are bad.