Meta’s massive overhaul of its internal and external policies this week included removing tampons from men’s rooms, according to a report.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company would be end its controversial fact-checking practices and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression” on the Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting that their content moderation practices had “gone too far”.
On Friday, Meta had completed its main Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
The New York Times reported these changes in an article on Friday titled“Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era,” warning, “The repercussions are just beginning.”
META ENDS DEI CORPORATE PROGRAMS
In addition to removing transgender and non-binary personalization themes from its Messenger app and changing its “hateful conduct” policy to allow criticism of gender identity, the company played an active role in changing the corporate culture in the office, according to The Times.
At Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas, and New York, facility managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided to non-binary and transgender employees who use the room of men and may have needed sanitary pads,” two employees said. ,” The Times reported.
LGBTQ employees reportedly turned to internal resource channels, with at least one announcing a resignation, while others said they would look for new jobs.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Meta for comment.
Joel Kaplan, Director of Global Affairs at Meta told Fox News Digital Friday that the move to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs will ensure the company is “building teams with the most talented people.”
He added that “This means assessing people as individuals and sourcing people from a range of candidate pools, but never making hiring decisions based on protected characteristics such as race or gender.”
As for the timing of the changes to Meta’s fact-checking programs, Kaplan told Fox News Digital that the company has “a real opportunity now.”
“We have a new administration that is far from pressuring companies to censor and (is more) a big supporter of free speech,” Kaplan said. “It brings us back to the values Mark founded the company on.”
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These changes seem to follow the trends of other big companies like them turn away from DEI and related ideologies during the new Trump era.
Fox News’ Eric Revell and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.