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A massive overhaul of Meta's internal and external policies this week reportedly included removing tampons from men's rooms, according to one report.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that the company will will end its controversial fact-checking practices and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free speech” on the Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting that its content moderation practices “have gone too far.”
On Friday, Meta ended its flagship Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
The New York Times reported on these changes in one piece on Friday with a caption“Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era,” warning: “The consequences are just beginning.”
META ENDS CORPORATE DEI PROGRAMS
Amid a company-wide shift away from far-left social agendas, Met management have reportedly been ordered to remove tampons from men's bathrooms. (Zuckerberg photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Tampon photo by Martin Schutt/Image Alliance via Getty Images)
Along with removing transgender and non-binary customization themes in its Messenger app and changing its “Hateful Conduct” policy to allow criticism of gender identity, the company has been actively involved in changing the company's office culture, according to The Times.
“At Meta's offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facility managers were instructed to remove tampons from men's bathrooms that the company provided to non-binary and transgender employees using the men's room who may have required sanitary napkins, two employees said. “, The Times reported.
LGBTQ employees reportedly lashed out on internal resource channels, with at least one announcing his resignation while others said they would be looking for new jobs.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Meta for comment.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will deliver the keynote address during the annual Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California on September 25, 2024. (Reuters/Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters)
Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan told Fox News Digital Friday that the move to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs will ensure the company is “building teams with the most talented people.”
He added that “this means evaluating people as individuals and recruiting people from a range of candidate groups, 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.”
“A new administration is coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor and [is more] a huge supporter of free speech,” Kaplan said. “It brings us back to the values that Mark founded the company on.”
Meta owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp apps. (Jens Büttner/Image Alliance via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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These changes seem to follow the trends of other major companies deviation from DEI and related ideologies during the new Trump era.
Eric Revell and Brooke Singman of Fox News contributed to this report.