Meta, Amazon Scale Back Diversity Programs

Meta and Amazon Axe DEI Measures Ahead of Trump Inauguration
The move to cut DEI comes just days after Meta announced a move to move to community-based content moderation strategy on its platforms.
Meta, Amazon Scale Back Diversity Programs Ahead of Trump Inauguration
Some of America's biggest businesses have been scaling back their diversity initiatives, years after pushing for more inclusive policies in the wake of protests against the police killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans in 2020.
Meta Retreats From Diversity and Inclusion, Appeasing Trump
Meta Platforms Inc. is disbanding many of its diversity and inclusion efforts, telling employees they will no longer be required to interview candidates from underrepresented backgrounds for open roles,
Meta to end diversity programs ahead of Trump inauguration
Meta Platforms is ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, including those for hiring, training and picking suppliers, it said in a memo to employees posted on an internal company forum on Friday.
Meta rolls back diversity and inclusion efforts, appeasing Trump
Maxine Williams, Meta’s chief diversity officer and highest-ranking black woman, will be reassigned to a new role.
Meta abandons racial diversity programmes as Zuckerberg woos Trump
The changes come soon after the platform dropped fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the US, and mark a further right-wing shift.

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Meta nixes diversity and inclusion program as it prepares for second Trump administration
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Meta disbands diversity team and says DEI has become ‘charged’
The memo, which was written by Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of human resources, said the company would replace DEI ...
Mark Zuckerberg says corporate culture was ‘neutered’ as Meta scraps DEI
The move reverses a years-long approach to diversity, equity and inclusion policies that the tech giant once embraced as ...
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The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul
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