Mark Zuckerberg’s charity guts DEI after assuring staff it would continue

ICYMI: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ends internal inclusion efforts and ‘social advocacy’ grants and scrubs site of commitment

The for-profit charity organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, has done an about-face on its commitment to corporate diversity.

Executives at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) informed employees on Tuesday evening that the organization would in effect do away with both internal and external diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, according to an internal email and other correspondence viewed by the Guardian. In late January, leaders at CZI reassured staff that its longstanding support for DEI was not changing. Zuckerberg’s company Meta announced it would terminate its DEI programs a month earlier, in the days before Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Continue reading…
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