An evil corporation ignores social responsibility, morality, ethics, and sometimes laws in order to make profit for its shareholders.
The science fiction genre served as the initial background to portray corporations in this dystopian light.
To guard against such accusations, Google used the official motto "Don't be evil" until the formation of Alphabet Inc.
Rob Enderle argued that this motto was never truly followed, and critics of Google have accused the company of "evil" acts such as secret data collection, violating customers' privacy, and political bias.
[4] The New Yorker wrote that "many food activists consider Monsanto (which later merged with Bayer) to be the definitively evil corporation".