John Stuart Mill on Should Soren expose the algorithm bias or keep his internship?

Soren is a high school senior interning at a major social media company through a competitive program that could lead to a full scholarship and future job offer. While analyzing data for his project, he discovers something troubling: the platform's content recommendation algorithm consistently ranks posts from users in certain racial and ethnic communities lower, making their content nearly invisible to the broader user base. The bias appears to be an unintended consequence of how the algorithm was trained, but the effect is real — millions of people have their voices systematically suppressed. Soren brings his findings to his supervisor, who says, "That's interesting, but it's above your pay grade. Focus on your assigned project." Soren suspects the company already knows about the issue and has chosen not to fix it because the current algorithm maximizes engagement and ad revenue. He could escalate his findings to senior leadership, leak the information to journalists, or simply let it go and finish his internship.