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

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 ...

One of those elected was Dana White, CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. John Elkann, CEO of Exor, a European investment company, and Charlie Songhurst, a technology investor ...

Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship president and supporter of President ... who have long accused tech platforms including Meta of anti-conservative bias. Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have each donated $1 million to Trump's ...

Meta is ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programmes, including those for hiring, training and picking suppliers, it said in an internal memo to employees on Friday – the latest in a series of actions cheered by conservatives.

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.

This comes at a time when the political leaning of Meta's board seems to be in transition after the victory of Trump in the US elections Dana White, the CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship ...

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.

Tech giants Meta and Amazon are re-evaluating diversity initiatives in response to shifting political and legal landscapes in the U.S.