Meta just dropped all DEI programs, effective immediately 👀

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My X timeline is coldly calculated to make libs heads explode.

Check this out:

Zuck’s on Rogan today AND Meta just announced they are killing their DEI programs!

What a heck of an info drop, huh?

Here’s a little bit of the memo sent to Meta employees:

Hi all, I wanted to share some changes we’re making to our hiring, development and procurement practices. Before getting into the details, there is some important background to lay out:

The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing. The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI. It reaffirms longstanding principles that discrimination should not be tolerated or promoted on the basis of inherent characteristics. The term “DEI” has also become charged, in part because it is understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others.

At Meta, we have a principle of serving everyone. This can be achieved through cognitively diverse teams, with differences in knowledge, skills, political views, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. Such teams are better at innovating, solving complex problems and identifying new opportunities which ultimately helps us deliver on our ambition to build products that serve everyone. On top of that, we’ve always believed that no-one should be given – or deprived- of opportunities because of protected characteristics, and that has not changed.

Is … are Zuckerberg and Meta admitting that DEI was anti-white discrimination and they are going to be ending it because Trump’s Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action?

Because that’s what I’m reading here.

Here’s more.

On hiring, we will continue to source candidates from different backgrounds, but we will stop using the Diverse Slate Approach. This practice has always been subject to public debate and is currently being challenged. We believe there are other ways to build an industry-leading workforce and leverage teams made up of world-class people from all types of backgrounds to build products that work for everyone.

We previously ended representation goals for women and ethnic minorities. Having goals can create the impression that decisions are being made based on race or gender. While this has never been our practice, we want to eliminate any impression of it.

We are sunsetting our supplier diversity efforts within our broader supplier strategy. This effort focused on sourcing from diverse-owned businesses; going forward, we will focus our efforts on supporting small and medium sized businesses that power much of our economy. Opportunities will continue to be available to all qualified suppliers, including those who were part of the supplier diversity program.

Instead of equity and inclusion training programs, we will build programs that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background.

We will no longer have a team focused on DEI. Maxine Williams is taking on a new role at Meta, focused on accessibility and engagement.

This isn’t just shuffling the deck (although that may be part of it). This is also an admission that DEI was wrong, never should have happened at Meta, and will not happen in the future.

Pretty cool what one SCOTUS ruling and one election can do, huh?