{"id":17203,"date":"2025-01-11T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T07:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/meta-terminates-its-dei-programs-days-before-trump-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T07:37:26","slug":"meta-terminates-its-dei-programs-days-before-trump-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/meta-terminates-its-dei-programs-days-before-trump-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta terminates its DEI programs days before Trump inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald\u2019s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives<\/p>\n<p>Following a week in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/07\/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content\">getting rid of factchecking,<\/a> as of Friday the company is also terminating its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>An internal memo from Meta acknowledged that \u201cthe legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing\u201d, while pointing to recent supreme court decisions and the \u201ccharged\u201d view some have of DEI as a concept. Axios and Business Insider first reported the memo. While Meta confirmed to the Guardian the company is ending its DEI practices, the company did not respond to a request for a comment about how the decision aligns with its overarching goals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/10\/meta-ending-dei-program\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1b0bb366c015ed132831c4183717c2176bfa9393\/907_10_6447_3869\/master\/6447.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c0f01d9fec1b7587b78b74f8ad8c2e81\" title=\"Meta terminates its DEI programs days before Trump inauguration\" \/>Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald\u2019s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives<br \/>\nFollowing a week in which Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was getting rid of factchecking, as of Friday the company is also terminating its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, effective immediately.<br \/>\nAn internal memo from Meta acknowledged that \u201cthe legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing\u201d, while pointing to recent supreme court decisions and the \u201ccharged\u201d view some have of DEI as a concept. Axios and Business Insider first reported the memo. While Meta confirmed to the Guardian the company is ending its DEI practices, the company did not respond to a request for a comment about how the decision aligns with its overarching goals. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald\u2019s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives Following a week in which Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was getting rid of factchecking, as of Friday the company is also terminating its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, effective immediately. An internal memo from Meta acknowledged that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/meta-terminates-its-dei-programs-days-before-trump-inauguration\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta terminates its DEI programs days before Trump inauguration<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}