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Coverage dated January 9, 2025

Meta's right-wing reinvention also includes an end to DEI programs and trans Messenger themes

Headline from Engadget

Meta is ending its diversity, equity and inclusion programs internally, part of a larger shift at the company to seemingly appeal to conservatives.

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  1. NBC10 Philadelphia

    Meta announces end of DEI programs. Read the internal memo (opens NBC10 Philadelphia)

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    NBC10 Philadelphia's feed description

    Meta says it plans to end a number of internal DEI programs, designed to increase the company’s hiring of diverse candidates.

  2. Engadget

    Meta's right-wing reinvention also includes an end to DEI programs and trans Messenger themes (opens Engadget)

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    Engadget's feed description

    Meta is ending its diversity, equity and inclusion programs internally, part of a larger shift at the company to seemingly appeal to conservatives.

  3. NBC News

    Meta announces end of its DEI programs. Read the memo. (opens NBC News)

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    NBC News's feed description

    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.

  4. Washington Examiner

    Meta ends DEI programs citing changing US ‘landscape’ (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Washington Examiner's feed description

    Meta’s vice president of human resources announced the company would cut its DEI team and end its goal of choosing business suppliers from “diverse-owned” businesses “effective immediately.”

  5. Triblive

    Meta becomes latest company to eliminate DEI programs (opens Triblive)

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    Triblive's feed description

    DEI programs are ending at major companies — with the latest changes happening at Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Meta announced the rollback of its major diversity-oriented programs in a memo Friday, citing the U.S.

  6. The Guardian

    Meta terminates its DEI programs days before Trump inauguration (opens The Guardian)

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    The Guardian's feed description

    Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald’s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives

  7. FOX Business

    Meta ends corporate DEI programs (opens FOX Business)

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    FOX Business's feed description

    Meta announced that it's ending its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs effective immediately in the wake of court rulings casting doubt on corporate DEI policies.

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