Meta orders removal of tampons in men’s restrooms amid Zuckerberg’s post-election jitters: report
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Meta’s major overhaul of internal and external policies this week reportedly included removing tampons from men’s restrooms, according to one report.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that the company will be ending its controversial fact-checking practices and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression” on Facebook, Instagram and the Meta platforms, acknowledging that content moderation practices have “gone too far.”
By Friday, Meta had completed its main Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes.
The New York Times reported on these changes on Friday titled“Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era,” warning, “The repercussions are just beginning.”
META TERMINATES CORPORATE DEI PROGRAM
Amid a company-wide pivot away from far-left social agendas, Meta’s management has 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/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Along with removing transgender and non-binary accommodation themes from its Messenger app and changing its “hateful conduct” policy to allow criticism of gender identity, the company has taken an active role in changing the corporate culture at the office, 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, which the company provided for non-binary and transgender employees using the men’s restroom who may have needed sanitary napkins, two employees said. ”, The Times announced.
LGBTQ employees reportedly railed against internal sources, 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 delivers the keynote speech during the annual Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on September 25, 2024. (Reuters/Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters)
Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan told Fox News Digital Friday that the move to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs will ensure the company “builds teams with the most talented people.”
He added that “this means evaluating people as individuals and finding people from a pool of candidates, but never making hiring decisions based on protected characteristics like race or gender.”
As for the timing of the changes to Meta’s fact-checking programs, Kaplan told Fox News Digital that the company now has a “real opportunity.”
“We have a new administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor and [is more] a big supporter of freedom of expression,” Kaplan said. “It brings us back to the values that Mark founded the company on.”
Meta owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp applications. (Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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These changes seem to follow trends among other large companies move away from DEI and related ideologies during the new Trump era.
Fox News’ Eric Revell and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
