Meta orders removal of tampons from men’s rooms amid Zuckerberg’s post-election shakeup: report

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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.”

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In the midst of a company-wide shift away from far-left social agendas, Meta management was ordered to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms. (Zuckerberg photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Tampon photo by Martin Schutt/picture Alliance via Getty Images)

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.

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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.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a keynote speech during the annual Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California on September 25, 2024. (Reuters/Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters)

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.”