Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta made another move to the right Friday with the announcement that the company is ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion program.
In a memo to the company’s 72,000 employees, Janelle Gale, vice president of human resources, wrote that Meta is changing course because the “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,” according to a report from Axios.
“The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI,” the memo said, per Axios.
“It reaffirms longstanding principles that discrimination should not be tolerated or promoted on the basis of inherent characteristics,” the document added.
“The term ‘DEI’ has also become charged, in part because
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