Amazon and Meta Scale back DEI Initiatives, Joining Growing List of Employers

The tech giants join a growing list of employers, including Walmart and McDonald’s, that are re-evaluating their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, while Costco and Apple are doubling down on DEI.

By Lynn Cavanaugh | January 17, 2025 at 05:20 PM

Last week, McDonald’s scaled back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Now Amazon and Meta are doing the same, the latest U.S. companies to re-evaluate their policies days before Donald Trump becomes the nation’s next president—and conservative opposition to such initiatives grows louder.

Last Friday, Meta—which owns Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp—said it will no longer consider DEI policies before hiring, training, or choosing suppliers. Meta’s DEI reversal came just days after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company would stop censoring speech on its social media platforms. Both Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have recently met with Trump as part of an ongoing effort to smooth relationships between the Republican president and the tech industry. Meta vice president of human resources Janelle Gale reportedly announced the DEI moves in an internal employee memo, attributing the policy revisions to the changing “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the United States.”

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Amazon and Meta Scale back DEI Initiatives, Joining Growing List of Employers

The tech giants join a growing list of employers, including Walmart and McDonald’s, that are re-evaluating their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, while Costco and Apple are doubling down on DEI.

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Amazon and Meta Scale back DEI Initiatives, Joining Growing List of Employers

The tech giants join a growing list of employers, including Walmart and McDonald’s, that are re-evaluating their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, while Costco and Apple are doubling down on DEI.

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