Meta and Amazon axe diversity programs ahead of Trump inauguration - Changes at Meta come after company elevated prominent Republican to key position and donated to Trump

Facebook owner Meta Platforms and Amazon are winding down diversity programmes ahead of Republican Donald Trump’s return to the United States presidency, amid growing conservative opposition to such initiatives.

Whoever is interested in obtaining the US television rights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will be paying more than a pretty penny.

CEO and President Dana White will join Meta’s board of directors, the social media company announced Monday. White is part of a trio of new additions to the

Mr. White, a close ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump, further strengthens the social media giant’s connections with the incoming administration.

Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC ... OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Amazon’s (AMZN) Jeff Bezos made similar donations. In December, Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global ...

CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and close friend of Trump, to its board. Amazon, in a December memo to employees seen by Reuters on Friday, said it was “winding down outdated ...

In less than two weeks, Meta has scrapped its U.S. fact-checking program, elevated prominent Republican Joel Kaplan to be its chief global affairs officer and elected Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and close friend of Trump, to its board.

In less than two weeks, Meta has scrapped its US fact-checking programme, elevated prominent Republican Joel Kaplan to be its chief global affairs officer and elected Mr Dana White, chief executive officer (CEO) of Ultimate Fighting Championship and Trump’s close friend, to its board.

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Meta Platforms and Amazon are both rolling back diversity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, the latest in a string of major U.S. companies to withdraw from such work ahead of the White House comeback of Donald Trump, who has long railed against “woke” policies and diversity.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is looking to secure over $1B per annum from its next media rights deal, more than double what Disney-owned ESPN (NYSE:DIS) is paying the mixed martial arts promotion company at the moment,