Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s sprint to remake Meta for the Trump era

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overhauling speech on its apps by loosening restrictions on how people can talk about contentious social issues such as immigration, gender and sexuality. It killed its fact-checking programme that had been aimed at curbing misinformation and said it would instead rely on users to police falsehoods. And it said it would insert more political content into people’s feeds after previously de-emphasising that very material.

Meta’s makeover continued when the company told employees it would end its work on diversity, equity and inclusion. It eliminated its chief diversity officer role, ended its diversity hiring goals that called for the employment of a certain number of women and minorities, and said it would no longer prioritise minority-owned businesses when hiring vendors.

Meta loosened rules so people could post statements saying they hated people of certain races, religions or sexual orientations, including permitting “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation”.

facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for non-binary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads

at least one person announced their resignation as others privately relayed to one another that they planned to look for jobs elsewhere

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