Whether the team’s move to Texas will be more than symbolic is unclear. Common sense suggests that if people in California share some political preference, moving to Texas won’t change their views immediately. with California. Those reasons frustrated employees, who believed Meta was harming the workforce to please Trump, the three staffers told WIRED. Meta and Trump remain on trial in northern California federal court over the temporary suspension of their accounts following the January 6, 2021 riots at the US Capitol. Trump said his constitutional right to free speech was violated. Zuckerberg recently met with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida to mediate the lawsuit, according to the Wall Street Journal. This week, Meta announced plans to cut 5 percent of its workforce starting next month. The company said it plans to backfill those positions throughout the year — a move that could see more employees hired in Texas. Following Meta’s decision last week to close its diversity, equity and inclusion program, there will be no targets for hiring historically underrepresented groups. During Rogan’s podcast, Zuckerberg said that users will now be able to provide advice on issues such as whether to serve in a military combat role. Some employees have warned that Meta now supports the spread of misogyny and bigotry in its service, according to two workers. In a town hall call with employees, executives defended the policy change by saying it would open the door to many people’s perspectives, such as being able to call people lazy on Facebook without fear of censoring, according to one employee present. limit the use of automatic filters to reduce allegedly offensive posts, and promote more political content in newsfeeds. On Tuesday, 12 civil rights advocacy groups that said they had advised Meta for years wrote to the company to state serious concern” with the revised policy. “This change undermines free expression because it will expose members of protected groups to more attacks, harassment, and harm, driving from Meta services, bad conversations, eliminating viewpoints, and making dissenting and often censored voices,” he wrote. . the group, which includes the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Human Rights Campaign, and the National Black Justice Collective. In a security and integrity town hall, management would be unfaithful to continue to publish statistics on the gender and racial makeup of the company’s employees. “It’s capitulating in the worst way,” says one said. Individually some managers have told the team that they plan to continue pushing for different hiring, according to three employees. Additional report by Steven Levy.
