Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP/Getty Images)
THE DAILY SIGNAL | Published January 11, 2025
The Trump Effect is in full swing before the new president even takes office.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company would end its major diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
Meta put out a memo to employees explaining the move, which was published by Axios.
“The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,” the memo reads. “The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI. It reaffirms long standing principles that discrimination should not be tolerated or promoted on the basis of inherent characteristics.”
The memo further stated that instead of specific DEI programs, Meta will now “focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background.”
The move comes just days after Meta declared that it would be ending its fact-checking partnership program that was used to censor content on Facebook and its other social media websites.
These are wins insomuch as this indicates the general direction of big business and social media in the age of Trump.
Zuckerberg has been making the rounds in a media blitz to convince everyone that he’s had a change of heart and that all those mean things his company did—like ruthlessly censor content that the Left didn’t like—was really because of the mean old Biden administration.
That’s funny—did Biden officials force Zuckerberg to spend hundreds of millions of dollars supporting Democrats and Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential bid?
Who knows what’s really in Zuckerberg’s heart. In a sense, it doesn’t matter. What’s happening at Meta is indicative of a larger trend that’s a product of the two big blows against the corporate DEI complex.
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SOURCE: www.dailysignal.com
RELATED: Meta Ditches DEI Programs ‘Effective Immediately’
REDSTATE | Published January 11, 2025
Meta, the company owning Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, is immediately shuttering its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs across all its platforms, saying the “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing.” This comes on the heels of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s trip to meet President Trump at Mar-a-Lago (Bending the Knee: Now Mark Zuckerberg Makes the Pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago), a $1 million contribution to Trump’s inaugural fund (Oh, Please: Zuckerberg Kicks in $1 Million Peace Offering to Trump’s Inauguration Fund ), and his stunning announcement on Tuesday that he was abolishing Meta’s use of “fact checkers” (WHOA: Meta Ends Fact-Checking As Zuckerberg Vows to Restore Free Expression on Facebook).
In a memo to employees, Meta vice president of human resources Janelle Gale announced five big retreats from DEI.
- Cutting Meta’s DEI team: Meta will no longer have a team focused on DEI. Maxine Williams, the company’s chief diversity officer, is taking on a new role at Meta, focused on accessibility and engagement, Gale wrote.
- Ending equity and inclusion programs: Meta will instead build programs “that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background,” Gale said.
- Sunsetting supplier diversity efforts: Meta will end efforts to source business suppliers from diverse-owned businesses. Moving forward, the company will “focus our efforts on supporting small and medium-sized businesses that power much of our economy,” Gale wrote.
- Ending the “Diverse Slate Approach” to hiring: While Meta will continue to source candidates from different backgrounds, it will no longer use the diverse-slate hiring approach, which ensures a diverse pool of candidates is considered for every open position. “We believe there are other ways to build an industry-leading workforce and leverage teams made up of world-class people from all types of backgrounds,” Gale wrote.
- Ending representation goals: Having representation goals, “can create the impression that decisions are being made based on race or gender,” Gale wrote. “While this has never been our practice, we want to eliminate any impression of it,” she said. She noted the company, “previously ended representation goals for women and ethnic minorities.”
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
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