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Meta and Amazon roll back diversity initiatives ahead of Trump’s second term (www.thepinknews.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They are removing them for the same reason they introduced them in the first place. Don't think they honestly believe either way, they just bend with the wind in politics.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They have no ethics, so they follow what's trendy

[–] kazerniel 8 points 2 weeks ago

They have no ethics, so they follow ~~what’s trendy~~ what they predict more profit from

[–] militaryintelligence 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If Trump hung a nazi flag from the White House on his first day, all these companies would be sig heiling

[–] acosmichippo 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

who wants to work there anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Too lazy to bother with proper research, but considering how big these companies are, asking your favorite LLM How many people work at Meta and Amazon combined? will yield about 1.5M people (+/- the usual yearly thousands of layofss/new hires).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

that's just amazon. meta is tiny in comparison, with 75k people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And most of those are probably warehouse and delivery workers.