Meta on Tuesday also updated its policies around what kind of content could be removed on its sites
The note to employees, shared with Bloomberg News verbally, represents a significant undoing of diversity, equity and inclusion priorities at the company. Maxine Williams, Meta’s chief diversity officer and highest-ranking black woman, will be reassigned to a new role, the memo states.
Axios earlier reported the news, which a Meta spokesperson confirmed.
Meta on Tuesday also updated its policies around what kind of content could be removed on its sites. These changes included new provisions allowing its users to at times wield insulting language “when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality” as well as to argue for gender or sexual orientation-based limitations on military, law enforcement and teaching jobs. The new policy also removed protections against language that describes women as “household objects or property” as well as dehumanizing language focused on Black, transgender and non-binary people.
As of 2023, Meta was a majority Asian company, at 51 per cent Asian and 36 per cent white, according to Bloomberg analysis of the data the company reports to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission each year. Percentages of Black and Hispanic workers, at 3.5 per cent and six per cent, respectively, have seen slight declines since 2020. Meta had among the biggest decline in Black managers among 84 S&P 100 companies from 2022 to 2023.
With assistance from Riley Griffin