Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are major issues of concern in the contemporary era. This study examines the effect of corporate governance on CSR by discussing how the deviation between the share control and cash flow rights, deviation between the board control and cash flow rights, and proportion of board seats held by family members affect the negative environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) news about a company. This study reveals that the higher the deviation between the cash-flow and control rights is and the higher the proportion of board seats held by family members is, the more negative ESG news a company will receive and the more likely a company will fail in its CSR practice. These empirical results hold the same after data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic are excluded from the analysis sample.