Just like with ESG, DEI seems to be dying as corporations abandon its tenets and remove the departments tasked with spreading them. But is this all about relabeling the wokeness and making it unofficial? We discussed it on a recent episode of The JD Rucker Show. Here’s the article we discussed and the segment itself.
Meta Ends DEI Programs in Latest Policy Reversal
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta on Friday announced the end of its corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, marking a dramatic reversal as such programs come under intense scrutiny from the public.
“The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,” wrote Vice President of Human Resources Janelle Gale in a memo obtained by Axios.
Gale highlighted a recently Supreme Court ruling barring affirmative action in college admissions and suggested it was indicative of how courts would handle DEI programs in the future. She further noted the politicized nature of such initiatives .
“We believe there are other ways to build an industry-leading workforce and leverage teams made up of world-class people from all types of backgrounds,” she wrote.
The move comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg terminated Facebook’s partnerships with fact-checking organizations and announced plans to replace them with a user-driven system similar to X’s community notes. Zuckerberg met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after his election win and Meta has donated to his inauguration fund. […]
— Read More: justthenews.com
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
But even as it seems nearly impossible to make a living, there are blessings that should not be disregarded. By highlighting strong sponsors who share our America First worldview, we have been able to make lifelong connections and even a bit of revenue to help us along. This is why we enjoy symbiotic relationships with companies like MyPillow, Jase Medical, and Promised Grounds. We help them with our recommendations and they reward us with money when our audience buys from them.
The same can be said about our preparedness sponsor, Prepper All-Naturals. Their long-term storage beef has a 25-year shelf life and is made with one ingredient: All-American Beef.
Even our faith-driven precious metals sponsor helps us tremendously while also helping Americans protect their life’s savings. We are blessed to work with them.
Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
