Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US
Meta is ending its DEI programs Bradley Cortright / New York Sun : Meta Abandons its DEI Programs Days Ahead of Trump's Inauguration Edith Olmsted / New Republic : Mark Zuckerberg Goes Full MAGA With Change in Hiring Policies Gerren Keith Gaynor / TheGrio : Meta seemingly bows to Trump and MAGA by axing DEI policies; White House responds Bluesky: Matt McNeil Show / @mattmcneilshow : These billionaires are horrible. Trying their hardest to make sure white, male, straight, Christian is the only protected class in America. — FYI, since I started mocking Zuck's turn toward MAGA yesterday, I lost 40 followers on Threads. www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m... Alan Rozenshtein / @arozenshtein : 1/ I think this is actually a more important story than Meta's content moderation changes. It's not just about appeasing Trump—it reflects a shift in Zuckerberg's political views, away from the progressive/far-left values that dominated elite culture from 2014-2020/21. www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m... Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : It's wild how quickly companies are pivoting from a position of “striving to correct systemic biases, you belong here” to “Black people are obsolete farm equipment, now get back to work” the instant it becomes politically expedient. [embedded post] Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : If you're going to rip off the mask, make sure to take it all the way off as quickly as possible, apparently. [embedded post] @marsrover : When I lived in Seattle I had a “good” corp job w/ insurance that allowed a whopping 19 PhysTher/OT visits/yr for my decades-old spinal fusion & nerve-damaged limbs. — A FB employee came in behind me. They had unlimited. And NO copay. — Don't believe their “Internal Concerns” unless they walk. … @accidentalflyer : Guess Meta is going back to its Facebook root, when the company was basically a frat house. [embedded post] @hypervisible : But Zuck one time displayed a BLM sign and cited MLK in a speech so there will be lots of hand wringing over what this means. @golikehellmachine.com : i think half of this is zuckerberg being roid brained and redpilled and half of it is an attempt to push out their lavishly salaried workforce in favor of contractors at half the price [embedded post] Evan Greer / @evangreer : Surely they are doing this because free speech right? [embedded post] Sammy / @autistichalsin : Well at least Facebook's determination to kill diversity is going to end up killing the company first and foremost. Any company too dumb to realize diversity is strength will inevitably fail (and then blame “the woke") [embedded post] Dave Weigel / @daveweigel : Agree w Melissa, but the CYA line in memo about the “legal and policy landscape” changing is true. Orgs will either cite Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC to scrap their race conscious programs or they'll get sued and scrap them. — Liberals lost 2016 with SCOTUS on the line, this is what happens. … @nickhasthoughts.com : look man this sucks for a lot of pretty terrifying reasons but in a purely business sense I am not sure it's a good move. all the people who want to throw slurs are already Facebook. all this is doing is alienating a user base who has no reason to hang around & X already cornered the asshole market! [embedded post] @utopia-defer.red : put into context, it was already pretty normal to face discrimination based on the sound of your name on a resume. i think plenty of trans women and minorities can testify to that when it comes to tech hiring. [embedded post] George Wishart / @gwbiscuit : - Every Friday will feature employees debuting new slurs and racist jokes they've come up with. — Employees must wear blackface and talk like “Amos & Andy” characters throughout February for Black History Month. — Toilet paper will be replaced with cut-up Pride flags. [embedded post] James Ball / @jamesrball.com : Less a dogwhistle than a bullhorn [embedded post] Dave Andress / @davidandress : Full-spectrum hard-core reaction in progress folks, in case you hadn't noticed. Welcome to the 1930s. [embedded post] Melissa Ryan / @melissaryan : I do appreciate how the media is framing this as Zuckerberg caving to Trump and MAGA. I suspect Zuck wants to do a lot of this crap anyway, but he's absolutely bowing to his new overlord. Nilo Cobau / @nilo : Seems like a great way to alienate your workforce? [embedded post] @shishiqiushi : If I was a civil rights lawyer I would be getting ready for some meta cases to come in about 4 years... [embedded post] Bear Wilner-Nugent / @saltlick : If you work at Meta, don't walk, run to a better employer. [embedded post] Kate Conger / @kateconger.com : Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social — no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion — no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses — no goals for hiring women and minorities Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : Zuckerberg's next giant step into full MAGAdom: — Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs https://www.axios.com/... MylesRyden / @MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net : @Techmeme — Bigotry is back boys!!! Threads: Casey Newton / @crumbler : NEW: Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program. Employees aren't buying the company's argument that it's the result of a ‘shifting legal landscape.’ What they're saying inside the company ➡️ https://www.platformer.news/ ... [image] X: Alexandr Wang / @alexandr_wang : MEI is the way @dhh : The collective insanity that was the DEI era already looks terrible, but in time it'll be clear to most just what an absurd perversion of humanistic ideals it really was. Good fucking riddance. @xlr8harder : incredible. here's some posts from Meta blind. I thought it was celebrating for the first paragraph, but apparently not! [image] @tekbog : showing up to Meta interview and saying the n word Rat King / @mikeisaac : VP of civil rights Roy Austin resigns from Meta last time I spoke with Austin was when meta was being sued for discrimination by the DOJ for discriminating against Facebook users by restricting who was able to see housing ads based on their race, gender and ZIP code [image] Tim Miller / @timodc : Axios 2033: “In the wake of President Ocasio Cortez's victory, Meta has vowed to lay off employees who launched the controversial Pepe AI Meme Squad and the company is promising to reach a 25% threshold for female BIPOC executives.” Luna / @lunayian : I am typically squarely focused on their XR stuff but for anyone wondering, to my knowledge it is a quite the mess inside of this company right now. @pinboard : In 2017 we knew that programmers at big tech companies had no appetite to unionize, so we tried to push for more targeted goals like “make management give you a board seat”, with zero success. It's frustrating that employee power was there for the taking and no one bothered. Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin : The best hiring practices are the ones that reach the MAXIMUM number of possible qualified candidates and accept the people best qualified for the job. I'm not sure this is possible without deliberate and concerted efforts to reach pools of candidates outside the conventional ones easier to find. So just killing off those efforts seems dangerous... @dhh : This is what America has done better than any other country: Attracting and letting merit rise to the top, regardless of background or identity. It's never a perfect process, but it's delusional to think it ever would be. Americans should be ever so proud of how well it's worked. @dhh : Meta takes another win by vanquishing all forms of DEI from the company, effective immediately. May the rest of the laggards in our industry swiftly follow. This was always the real structural racism. Merit is so back 🤘 https://www.axios.com/... Jimmy Putler / @nkulw : Whats funny is that the kkkonservatives who are meant to be appeased by this will probably keep calling Facebook gay and Jewish Sam Stein / @samstein : FWIW. as of earlier this week a person familiar with the policy said Meta would still be cover the cost of employees who seek abortions out of state because their state has limits on the procedure. I asked because of the news that the company's footprint in Texas was growing. Joe / @jakuuire : Meta to DEI: DIE Landon Hall / @landonhall : Eliminating diversity is the quickest way to death in corporate America in the 21st century. Facebook will die out. @charliepop2001 : Lol tech bros were faking it for 2 decades @mattboxer94 : Mixed. No DEI is fine but this could be going too far Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth : I had dinner with several Fortune 500 CEOs. One shared a story about calling Mark Zuckerberg after the NZ shooting had spread like crazy on FB. He had one Q for Zuck: “What is your North Star?” Zuck didn't have one. He didn't even understand the Q. This week, we saw that. Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about any of this stuff, he wants (1) an end to the FTC antitrust suit against the firm (2) removing the consent decree that bans the targeting of children and (3) the government to legalize mass copyright violations for AI training models. Sara Fischer / @sarafischer : Scoop: @Meta rolling back #DEI programs in latest bow to #Trump — DEI team cut — Equity and inclusion programs ending — Sunsetting supplier diversity efforts — Ending representation goals — Ending the “Diverse Slate Approach” to hiring With @mikeallen: https://www.axios.com/... Jim VandeHei / @jimvandehei : 🚨🚨🚨Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is terminating major DEI programs, effective immediately — including for hiring, training and picking suppliers, according to a new employee memo obtained by @axios https://www.axios.com/... Ina Fried / @inafried : Exclusive: Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump https://www.axios.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : BIG changes in hiring practices just announced inside of Meta, per sources: No longer teams at meta devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion No diversity working with outside minority owned supplier businesses No goals for hiring women and minorities w @kateconger LinkedIn: Tanya Hayles : Been trying to tell you, but I was just being defeatist. — Anti-woke aka anti-DEI is just all synonyms for Anti-Black. … Joanne Lipman : BREAKING: Meta kills DEI programs. — I get that the phrase “DEI” has become a political football. … Sara Sperling : In 2011 myself and MANY other Facebookers helped build the DEI program at the request of leadership. Today is a really sad day. … Keirsten Greggs : #ByeByeDEI — Im laser focused 👀 on the remainder of the FAANG companies. My guess is DEI will NOT thrive in 2025 but I would love for one of more to prove me wrong. … Joelle Emerson : Every time a company shutters DEI programs because they're shifting away from initiatives that emphasize “preferential treatment” … Kristen Parisi : Meta has angered and frustrated many employees this week, as it changed content moderation practices and opened what some believe are floodgates for hate speech … Forums: r/NewsOfTheStupid : Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs r/Enough_Sanders_Spam : Meta cuts diversity, equity and inclusion efforts after cutting fact checking r/economy : Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs r/ExperiencedDevs : Meta kills DEI programs r/technology : Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs r/Destiny : Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump r/neoliberal : Exclusive: Meta kills DEI programs r/JordanPeterson : Meta kills DEI programs Msmash / Slashdot : Meta Kills DEI Programs