Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to remove tampons from the male bathrooms at Meta has already run into controversy.
Following Donald Trump’s victory last November, Zuckerberg has gone out of his way to repair relations with Donald Trump, starting with a meeting with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort and a million dollar donation to his inauguration fund.
Shortly after that meeting, Zuckerberg implemented numerous changes across the company aimed at shedding the company’s left-wing image.
Among his various reforms included scrapping all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, firing all his third-party fact-checkers, appointing Republicans and Trump supporters to the company board and eliminating tampons from the men’s bathrooms.
According to The New York Times, employees at the Silicon Valley giant have been left dismayed by the CEO’s apparent rightward shift and are quietly making their opposition known.
The report states:
Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men’s bathrooms at Meta’s offices.
Days earlier, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, had made a series of changes at his company, aligning with President Trump’s new administration.
As part of the moves, Mr. Zuckerberg eliminated diversity initiatives in the workplace — something that Mr. Trump had criticized — and removed sanitary products from the men’s bathrooms, which had been provided for transgender and nonbinary employees who may have required them.
To protest Mr. Zuckerberg’s actions, some Meta workers soon brought their own tampons, pads and liners to the men’s bathrooms, five people with knowledge of the effort said.
A group of employees also circulated a petition to save the tampons.
The sanitary products were emblematic of the quiet rebellions that Silicon Valley workers have staged as they grapple with the rightward shift of their bosses.
Responding to the petition, the vice president of workplace services said that while “not been the intention of Meta leadership to make employees feel unwelcome or excluded in our offices, at this point we do not have plans to revisit our on-site amenities offerings.”
On Wednesday, Meta also agreed to settle a lawsuit with Trump after the social media giant suspended his accounts following the January 6th protests.
Around $22 million from the settlement will go to Donald Trump’s presidential library, while the remaining amount will go towards paying lawyers and other plaintiffs who signed onto the case..
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