Meta is scaling back its diversity and inclusion efforts, ending requirements for interviewing candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and partnering with diverse suppliers. Chief Diversity Officer Maxine Williams is being reassigned. This move comes amidst Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to appease former President Donald Trump, a vocal critic of DEI policies. The company has also revised its content moderation policies, allowing more inflammatory language related to transgender rights, immigration, and homosexuality.
A man takes a photo at Meta corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California on Nov. 9, 2022. Meta is disbanding many of its diversity and inclusion efforts, telling employees they will no longer be required to interview candidates from under-represented backgrounds for open roles, or look to do business with diverse suppliers.
Meta on Tuesday also updated its policies around what kind of content could be removed on its sites. These changes included new provisions allowing its users to at times wield insulting language “when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality” as well as to argue for gender or sexual orientation-based limitations on military, law enforcement and teaching jobs.
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