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Tech giant Meta On Friday, it immediately ended its main Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, joining a growing group of companies supporting DEI initiatives.
Citing a memo to Meta employees, Axios reported that the company was ceasing operations immediately DEI program To recruit, train and select suppliers.
According to Axios, the company told employees in a memo from Janelle Gill, Meta's vice president of human resources, that “the legal and policy landscape around diversity, equity and efforts is changing.”
Meta confirmed the Axios report in response to a request from FOX Business.
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Led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta announced the cancellation of its DEI plans after ending its verification initiative earlier this week. (Reuters/Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters)
Gill's memo cited recent Supreme Court decisions whose impact “represents a shift in how courts approach DEI” that contributed to the shift.
“The term 'DEI' has also been conceived in part because some see it as a practice that shows preferential treatment for some groups over others,” Gill wrote in a note reported by Axios.
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“It's ultimately about doing what's best for our company and making sure we're serving everyone and building the most talented team,” Joel Kaplan, META's new director of global affairs, told Fox News Digital's Brooke Syngman. We are people.”
“It means evaluating people as individuals, and sourcing people from a wide range of candidates, but never making hiring decisions based on protected characteristics like race or gender,” Kaplan said.
“The U.S. Supreme Court has recently issued decisions that signal a shift in how courts approach DEI,” Kaplan explained. “It reaffirms long-standing principles that discrimination based on inherent characteristics should not be tolerated or promoted.”
He added: “It is clear that there is a change in this issue from a political and legal perspective and we anticipate that this will happen even moving forward and we want to ensure that our plans are in a long-term and stable position.”
Meta cited a changing legal and policy landscape in his decision to end DEI policies. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Meta's announcement comes after it announced earlier this week that it would do so End your fact-finding program.
Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Meta It said the company is planning to replace them with community notes similar to the X notes.
Several other prominent companies have backed away from DEI policies in recent months.
McDonald's announced on Monday that it was ending some of its DEI policies, saying that while it was committed to its inclusion, it was abandoning its “aspirational agency goals” and also ending its DEI obligations to suppliers. The company also renamed its diversity team to the Global Inclusion team and ended external surveys on the topic.
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The fast-food giant's decision followed similar changes made in 2024 by Walmart, Ford Motor Company, John Deere, Lowe's and Toyota.
In addition, in mid-December, a federal appeals court Rejected Nasdaq's diversification rules which was previously approved by the Stock Exchange and Securities Organization.
Brooke Singhman of Fox News Digital and Burke Dumas of FOX Business contributed to this report.