A calm but challenging protest has arisen among Meta employees in her business office after a series of major changes from CEO Mark Zuckerberg who has more closely tailored his company to President Donald Trump's policy.
Only a few days after Zuckerberg announced that Meta would eliminate its diversity initiatives – a long -standing target of the previous administration of Trump – the company also removed sanitary products from Heritaire products.
The provision was introduced to support transgender and non -binary employees.
But the decision to remove them was experienced when employees started to repeat the toilets of the men themselves and put tampons, pillows and carrying back in place.
Five meta employees who are familiar with the effort confirmed the protest that the collision of the boardroom moved to the bathroom.
A petition was then spread over the repair of such provisions.
The action has become emblematic for a larger movement between the workforce of Silicon Valley, which is increasingly at odds with the right -wing shift of his leadership.
The policy shifts of Zuckerberg are only the newest in a stunning re -perception of the elite of Silicon Valley.
Just a few days after Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would eliminate its diversity initiatives – a long -standing target of Trump's previous administration – The company also removed sanitary products from men's toilets
Five meta employees who are familiar with the effort confirmed the protest. A petition was subsequently distributed over the repair of such provisions
There has been secret resistance at Meta with employees who re -raise the toilets of the men, who put tampons, pillows and carrying back into place
As soon as bastions of progressive values, the heads of Meta, Google, Apple and Amazon recently embraced Trump's presidency.
The moment was cemented when Zuckerberg, together with Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos, attended the inauguration of Trump.
The visual of the Technical Moguls, who once condemned Trump's policy, now stood next to him, sent shock waves by their employees.
But the dissatisfaction did not manifest itself in the mass protests and open uprising that is seen during Trump's first term. Instead, employees have resorted to subtle but targeted resistance.
At Google reluctantly approved a festive fireworks animation for the inauguration of Trump, leaving a clear digital paper path that the decision was imposed by Pichai.
At Amazon, employees exchanged messages that regret the participation of their company in the event, with one that compares it with a family betrayal: “Father is inauguration.”
In the meantime, with Apple employees watched their CEO, Tim Cook, to share a platform with Trump after having made a rare political donation of $ 1 million to his inauguration fund.
The protests reflect a grim reality: that the power relationships in Silicon Valley have shifted dramatically.
President Trump welcomed Mark Zuckerberg in the Oval Office in 2019, shown
W Meta and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan can be seen at the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Rotunda on January 20
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Google CEO Sundar Pichai can all be seen at Trump's Inauguration
Apple CEO Tim Cook laughs at Donald Trump's inauguration alongside Google's co-founder Sergey Brin
Apple CEO Tim Cook is looking behind US President Donald Trump and the American Vice President JD Vance
Beyond are the days that employees could freely challenge their leadership without fear of reprisals.
In recent years, Zuckerberg, Musk and their colleagues have taken a strong grip on their companies, increased performance expectations, clamping the internal abnormal opinions and those who cross the border quickly eliminate.
Musk's revision of X served as a warning shot. Musk's decision to dismiss more than three-quarters of his workforce in 2022 and his statement that only the 'hardcore' would survive meant a new era of top-down authoritarianism in technology.
The message was clear: those who defy open leadership will be out of a job.
At Meta the performance is just as intense. Internal messageboards that once buzzed with a political discourse are systematically scrubbed from different opinions.
Messages that criticize Zuckerberg's decisions have been deleted and employees who are responsible for them receive warnings from HR.
When employees recently tried to organize a petition in which the return of sanitary products to all meta toilets were called, signatories were received a blunt e -mail from Meta's Workplace Services VP: although the company was not planning to let employees exclude themselves Feeling, there were no plans to visit the offer on the spot again. '
A demonstrator is wearing a sign against Meta -Baas Mark Zuckerberg while protesters march in solidarity last week with all the oppressed women around the world in London
Demonstrants sing during a meeting against Trump's immigration and transgender rights in New on Wednesday
The right -wing turn of Zuckerberg has not been subtle.
In addition to the disintegration of diversity programs, he promoted Republican -lit managers and appointed Trump Ally Dana White, the President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, as the Board of Directors of Meta.
His recent statements about the need for more 'male energy' in business leadership have only fueled the fear of employees.
Although many hoped to interrogate Zuckerberg directly about his decisions, the internal Q&A sessions of Meta were cleaned, with leadership preventively crossed questions that are 'deemed unproductive if they leak'.
A sarcastic but moving question that circulated internally – how women could bring more 'male energy' to the workplace at Meta – was predictably ignored.
Tech leaders who once defended for diversity, inclusion and globalism are now connected to a president who attributes this very ideals with the once Unshakable Progressive Ethos of Silicon Valley now besieged.
