Mark Zuckerberg’s charity U-turns, ends DEI efforts

Mark Zuckerberg’s charity has eliminated its DEI programs and efforts just weeks after assuring staff it would continue supporting DEI efforts, The Guardian reports. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), co-founded by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, will end internal DEI programs and no longer provide “social advocacy funding,” which provided grants for racial equity and immigration reforms. In a staff email obtained by The Guardian, Marc Malandro, the COO of CZI, said the organization will instead issue grants for “biology and AI.” CZI has also canceled its Science Diversity Leadership Awards, which gave out $1.5 million to researchers, and ended its Diverse Slate Practice, which mandated that diverse applications be interviewed for all open positions. “Given the shifting regulatory and legal landscape, we will no longer have a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility team at CZI,” Malandro wrote in an email to employees. This is a complete reversal of what CZI just ... Read full article.