Meta rolls back its DEI programs

Meta Discontinues DEI Programs Just Days After The Company’s CEO Announces The End Of Its Fact-Checking System
Meta has joined the ranks of major companies that are scaling back or, in its case, terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. In a memo sent on Friday, Jan. 10, through Meta’s internal communications tool Workplace,
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DEI programs at Meta are done, company says
The end of the company's DEI efforts means that it will no longer use a "diverse slate approach," which it began implementing in 2015. According to a 2017 blog post on Meta's website about the strategy, it "sets the expectation that hiring managers will consider candidates from underrepresented backgrounds when interviewing for an open position."
Meta ends DEI programs citing changing US ‘landscape’
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Meta Ditches DEI Programs to ‘Mitigate Bias for All’
Meta on Friday said it would be ending its DEI programs to focus on building programs that "mitigate bias for all."
Meta ends DEI programs amid conservative pressure
Meta is eliminating the company’s DEI team, ending “equity and inclusion programs and changing hiring and supplier diversity practices,” according to a company memo obtained by CNN and sent to all global employees by Meta’s vice president of human resources, Janelle Gale.
Meta announces end of its DEI programs. Read the memo.
Meta on Friday told employees that its plans to end a number of internal programs designed to increase the company’s hiring of diverse candidates, the latest dramatic change ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second White House term.
Leaked memo: Meta rolls back its DEI programs
Meta is rolling back its DEI program, Business Insider has learned. The company's vice president of human resources, Janelle Gale, announced the move on its internal communication platform called Workplace on Friday,
Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged”
According to an internal memo viewed by Axios and verified by Ars, Meta's vice president of human resources, Janelle Gale, told Meta employees that the shift was due to "legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity,
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will terminate all DEI programs—including in hiring, training and selecting suppliers. “The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,
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