Tomás Sidenfaden

Jan 22, 2025 | quillette.com | David Haskell |Tomás Sidenfaden |Benjamin Kerstein |Peter Hague

In January, the world’s second-largest restaurant chain, , and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, both joined the long list of multinational corporations that have announced they are discontinuing their formal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Jan 21, 2025 | quillette.com | Tomás Sidenfaden |Benjamin Kerstein |Peter Hague |Cary Nelson

On 7 January, Mark Zuckerberg posted a video message on Instagram, in which he announced that Meta would “get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.” This was an abrupt about-face from the CEO of a company that once employed thousands of content moderators. But who decides what constitutes “mainstream discourse” on controversial topics like immigration?