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The company is terminating DEI programs in its latest shift away from progressive policy.
details how Zuck tapped a small team of executives to help him reshape Meta platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Threads how he sees fit. Thus far, that has includedThe company announced that it will axe its DEI team, stop attempts to work with minority-owned supplier businesses, and end representation goals, among other policy reversals.
The changes will go into effect immediately. This shift to the right follows Zuckerberg’s trip to Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving, where he spent time with President-elect Donald Trump. But, per the Times, this has been bubbling inside Meta’s CEO for some time. He’s reportedly felt forced to take on “progressive” causes—you know, those radical left-aligned beliefs like “equal opportunity is good” and “you shouldn’t just get to lie about stuff”—by his employees and outside forces. Behind the scenes, the Times says he’s been talking withInterestingly, Zuckerberg’s techno-libertarian version of “free speech” looks a whole lot like “suppressing marginalized people” in practice. Zuck, along with his small circle of like-minded ghouls,in a way that would prohibit saying “white people have mental illness” but would allow saying “gay people have mental illness,” for example. The company also And then there’s the decision to end DEI programs. Meta claimed the reason it made the call was because “the legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing.” In the memo obtained by Axios, Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of human resources, cited the Supreme Court’s recent decisions “signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI”—an apparent reference to SCOTUS’ decision toBut more than that, it appears the decision is an extension of Zuckerberg’s worldview. His pals in Silicon Valley’s venture capital world have spent years, fancying themselves the kings of meritocracy and pooh-poohing the idea that someone from a less privileged background would face any discrimination if they wereThis is a decided departure from how the company presented itself in the last few years. After all, the company just, “Our commitment to DEI remains at the center of who we are as a company.” And just two years ago, Meta published a diversity report that highlighted how it had managed to attract more talent from marginalized communities by hiring more remote workers. (The company has since issued a From all of the decisions that Zuckerberg has rolled out across his company in the past few weeks, it’s clear that there is one type of diversity that he is truly done with: Diversity of thought that disagrees with him.Facebook A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their ClicksDespite its new plan to loosen content moderation across its apps, Meta says its policies differ for internal and external discussion.Meta Smart Glasses First Big Cultural Moment Is a Terror AttackSomeone Likely Used a Sophisticated Phone-Spying Device at the 2024 DNC
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