Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly cast the blame for the Facebook parent company’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) push on a longtime former executive at the tech giant.
The New York Times reported that as Zuckerberg moved to root out DEI programs at Meta – the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads – he met with Stephen Miller, a key aide to President-elect Trump.
In that meeting, Zuckerberg blamed Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer at Meta who left the company in 2022, for an inclusivity initiative that sought to encourage employees to express themselves in the workplace, according to the Times report.
Zuckerberg also signaled to Miller that he had previewed changes to Meta’s policies and signaled that he wasn’t planning to get in the way of the incoming administration’s efforts to rollback DEI culture in corporate America, according to the report.
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