The ethical examination of digital technologies — social media, surveillance, algorithmic systems, and the reshaping of information environments.

Digital ethics confronts the systematic erosion of privacy as a social norm, the weaponization of attention, the amplification of extremism through engagement optimization, and the concentration of informational power.

The Sufi tradition's ethics of speech (adab al-kalam) — the understanding that what is communicated carries moral weight beyond its content — provides a framework for digital communication ethics grounded in character rather than compliance. The concept of fitna (social disruption and harm) as a category of moral analysis is directly applicable to platform design decisions.