Meta Dismantles Diversity Initiatives, Terminates DEI Team

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*Meta is ending several diversity-focused initiatives, including the Diverse Slate Approach and representation goals, which aimed to increase hiring from minority groups. 

The company is also discontinuing equity and inclusion training programs and dissolving its DEI-focused team, alongside terminating its supplier diversity efforts, Axios reports. The moves come amid Meta’s growing alignment with Donald Trump, including a $1 million donation to his inauguration and the appointment of UFC president Dana White (a Trump supporter) to the board.

In an internal memo, Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of human resources, stated that these programs were being challenged and would no longer be implemented. The moves come days after Meta announced new policies aimed at ending efforts to fact-check and police speech on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

Meta is eliminating the company’s DEI team, ending “equity and inclusion programs and changing hiring and supplier diversity practices,” according to the company memo.

“The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,” Gale wrote. “The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI. It reaffirms longstanding principles that discrimination should not be tolerated or promoted on the basis of inherent characteristics.”

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DEI – Diversion Equity Inclusion – Depositphotos

According to the memo, Meta will no longer use the diverse-slate hiring approach.

“We believe there are other ways to build an industry-leading workforce and leverage teams made up of world-class people from all types of backgrounds,” Gale wrote, noting that having representation goals, “can create the impression that decisions are being made based on race or gender.”

Gale added, “While this has never been our practice, we want to eliminate any impression of it,” she said. 

The company, “previously ended representation goals for women and ethnic minorities,” Gale wrote.

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