Just days after 2024 had come and gone, Meta (now Facebook’s parent company) announced that instead of forging ahead with diversity goals, it would do away with corporate inclusion efforts entirely.
How Meta abandoned Silicon Valley’s most ambitious diversity goals Zuckerberg’s company once invested millions and attracted top talent as tech’s leader in corporate diversity.
The decline of diversity goals at Meta began in earnest with the departure of chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, many of the former employees said.
Seven former Facebook employees who worked on the company’s DEI and trust and safety teams say the shift had been a long time in the making.
“Facebook used to be the place to be if you wanted to work on diversity,” said a former recruiter on the DEI team, who asked not to be named for fear of professional reprisal.
