{"id":18473,"date":"2025-04-11T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/legal-defense-fund-exits-meta-civil-rights-advisory-group-over-dei-changes\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:37:58","slug":"legal-defense-fund-exits-meta-civil-rights-advisory-group-over-dei-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/legal-defense-fund-exits-meta-civil-rights-advisory-group-over-dei-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Defense Fund exits Meta civil rights advisory group over DEI changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta ending DEI programs, getting rid of factcheckers and changing content moderation policies led to LDF\u2019s decision<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced its decision to exit Meta\u2019s external civil rights advisory group due to its concerns over Meta\u2019s content moderation and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) policy changes.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Meta made a series of sweeping changes, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/10\/meta-ending-dei-program\">ending its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs<\/a>, <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 its factcheckers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/transcript-mark-zuckerberg-announces-major-changes-to-metas-content-moderation-policies-and-operations\/\">changing its content moderation policies<\/a>. These changes, which some saw as aligning Meta with the then incoming Trump administration, informed the LDF\u2019s decision to leave the civil rights advisory group.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/11\/meta-ldf-dei-policy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6fd44beb8d5bf2d47ef1c7251526419884d551a7\/0_60_2584_1552\/master\/2584.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0acf3fbf675ee3ce4690ebfcf87eb3ef\" title=\"Legal Defense Fund exits Meta civil rights advisory group over DEI changes\" \/>Meta ending DEI programs, getting rid of factcheckers and changing content moderation policies led to LDF\u2019s decision<br \/>\nOn Friday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced its decision to exit Meta\u2019s external civil rights advisory group due to its concerns over Meta\u2019s content moderation and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) policy changes.<br \/>\nIn January, Meta made a series of sweeping changes, including ending its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, getting rid of its factcheckers and changing its content moderation policies. These changes, which some saw as aligning Meta with the then incoming Trump administration, informed the LDF\u2019s decision to leave the civil rights advisory group. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta ending DEI programs, getting rid of factcheckers and changing content moderation policies led to LDF\u2019s decision On Friday, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced its decision to exit Meta\u2019s external civil rights advisory group due to its concerns over Meta\u2019s content moderation and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) policy changes. In January, Meta &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/legal-defense-fund-exits-meta-civil-rights-advisory-group-over-dei-changes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legal Defense Fund exits Meta civil rights advisory group over DEI changes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18474,"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\/18473"}],"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=18473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}