You are the head of a hiring panel at your organization

The ethical and business implications of social media can be that social media platforms can revoke or deactivate the account of such a candidate if the company will report such an account on the basis of spreading fake news and rumors about the company and passing the insulting remarks for the company. Also, when other companies will approach this case then they also may refuse to hire that candidate on such grounds.

Legal implications for this case can be that the candidate can be sued in the court of law by the company on the grounds of spreading false rumors and harming the goodwill of the company. The court can charge the candidate with a penalty and pay for the defamation charges of the company.

The Utilitarianism theory is about not harming others and spreading happiness but in this case, the candidate is harming the goodwill of the company by spreading the bad words on the false grounds without any proof which will also hamper the working of the company and for which company will lose its potential clients and market because of this random defamation comments.

Kant's theory says that actions are proved to be right only if they fulfill the duty to be performed. In this case, the duty of the candidate is not questioning the policies of the company without even being part of it. The duty of the candidate was to morally and ethically perform well in its interview and wait for the results and if the candidate got failed then it should focus on working on its weaknesses. Here, the candidate did ethically wrong to the company.