Project 2025 January 15th Update

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https://globalextremism.org/post/project-2025-january-15th-update/

Meta’s MAGA Metamorphosis: Project 2025’s Digital Revolution Takes Shape

In a sweeping transformation aligned with Project 2025’s authoritarian vision, Meta is simultaneously dismantling its content moderation infrastructure and terminating its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs just days before Donald Trump returns to the White House. These changes, detailed in internal memos obtained by both The Intercept and Axios represent a fundamental shift in the company’s operations and culture.

The announcement of Meta’s new direction came four years to the day after founder Mark Zuckerberg banned Donald Trump from Facebook. The social media company’s new policies align directly with Project 2025’s blueprint for dismantling what it terms “government censorship infrastructure.” The Mandate for Leadership specifically calls for ending programs that counter misinformation and disinformation, targeting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for what it describes as expanding “into lanes where it does not belong, the most recent and most glaring example being censorship of so-called misinformation and disinformation.”

Censorship, they argue, infringes on religious freedom as well as the right to freedom of speech. “The United States government and, by extension, the FBI have absolutely no business policing speech, whether in the public square, in print, or online. The First Amendment prohibits it.”

The company’s DEI rollback, announced in a memo from VP of Human Resources Janelle Gale, includes five major changes: eliminating Meta’s DEI team, ending equity and inclusion programs, discontinuing supplier diversity efforts, terminating the “Diverse Slate Approach” to hiring, and ending representation goals. The memo cites changes in “the legal and policy landscape” as justification.

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