Many meta employees don’t need to move to Texas after all

It’s unclear whether moving teams to Texas will be more than symbolic. Common sense suggests that if a person in California exhibits some sort of political preference, moving to Texas is unlikely to immediately reshape their views.

In the same town hall call, company leadership described the move to Texas as an effort to resolve perception issues with California. That argument has frustrated employees, who believe Meta is harming his staff to appease Trump, three staffers told Wired. Meta and Trump stay in the case January 6, 2021, in a federal court in Northern California regarding the temporary suspension of his account following riots at the US Capitol. Trump alleges that his constitutional right to free speech has been violated. Zuckerberg recently met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to mediate the case, according to The Wall Street Journal.

This week, meta Exposed plan It will cut 5 percent of its workforce starting in February. The company said it plans to replenish those positions throughout the year — a move that could hire more employees in Texas. Following Mitter’s decision last week to end its diversity, equity and inclusion program, there will be no targets for recruiting historically underrepresented groups.

Last week’s changes to hate speech rules allow users to post more acerbic criticisms, including gender and ethnicity. During the Rogan podcast, Zuckerberg said users will now be able to vote on things like whether they should work in a military combat role. Some employees warn that Meta is now supporting the spread of misogyny and bigotry on its services, according to two employees.

In a town hall call with employees, an executive defended the policy changes by saying they would open the door to many viewpoints, such as being able to call men lazy on Facebook without fear of being censored, according to an employee in attendance.

On the enforcement side, Meta is taking off Its current fact-checking programLimiting the use of automated filters to suppress allegedly offensive posts, and promoting greater amounts of political content in newsfeeds.

On Tuesday, 12 civil rights advocacy groups that say they have advised Meta over the years Written to the company Expressing “serious concerns” with the revised policies. “These changes are devastating to free expression because they will further attack, harass, and harm members of protected groups, drive them away from Metro services, impoverish conversation, eliminate viewpoints, and silence dissenting and often censored voices,” the group wrote. These include the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Human Rights Campaign, and the National Black Justice Collective.

In the interest of safety and integrity, management will not commit to continuing to publish statistics about the gender and racial makeup of company employees. “It’s surrender in the worst possible way,” said one.

According to three employees, some managers have privately told their teams that they plan to continue pushing for different hires.

Additional reporting by Steven Levy.