Meta employees usually vote on which questions the authorities should address in the company's meetings. Next to such a gathering prescribed for Thursday, the most endorsed questions were related to dei. But the Meta leadership has told the employees that the popularity of a certain question no longer guarantees that it will be answered by the company's leadership, according to one of the employees. New York Times First Informed Change.
Many American companies including technical industry, Removed mentions The growing public criticism of initiatives as civil cases and pressure from activist investors is one of the variety goals and programs in its annual filing almost a year ago. President Donald Trump returned to the White House this month by retailers, restaurants, manufacturers and tech developers.
Trump has Repeated criticism Dei policies and programs, calling them “Nonsense“And” discriminatory. “After his inauguration on January 20, Trump quickly moved to the federal government agencies to end DEI programs.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has demanded a one-time relationship with the President in the last few months. On Wednesday, Meta and Trump arrived on an agreement to prosecute Trump Temporary suspension of its user account after 6 January Back RevoltAs A federal court filingMeta agreed to pay approximately $ 25 million with most funds leading to Trump's future President's Library, The Wall Street Journal Informed Meta spokesperson Dani Lever confirmed Wired's reporting. Trump's lawyers in the case did not respond to the remarks requests.
Zuckerberg on Wednesday did not accept settlement on the company's quarterly earnings call, but appreciated the President. He said, “We now have an American administration that proud of our major companies, prioritizes winning American technology, and it will defend our values and interests abroad,” he said. “And I am optimistic about progress and innovation that it can rest.”
In meta, the effect of DEI cuts can be mute in part, as the company is working on trimming them for some time behind those curtains, familiar with direct changes according to a former Meta employee. “This is a slow, painful death,” they say. After killing George Floid in 2020The then-Chief Operations Officer Sheryl Sandberg led the increased commitments to the company's diversity, including the commission. Internal civil rights auditIn its 2022 diversity reportMeta said that it had doubled the number of women and black staff members as part of its diversity goals since 2019.
With the support of Sandberg, the former meta employee says, “This huge crowd to create a difference was like a huge crowd.” But in July 2022, Sandberg announced His departure From day to day operations in the company. Around the same time, the Tech veteran announced that it would begin to identify teams to go during the upcoming widespread layoffs, which occurred several months later. The final cuts affected some 11,000 people and they were First blow For the progress of meta on diversity, the former employee accuses.