Meta forbids internal conversations on hot-button issues, New York Times employees strike

Employees of tech giant Meta have been told that they can no longer discuss issues that could prove controversial, such as abortion and COVID vaccines on company messaging platforms. The move is said to avoid topics that have been “disruptive”.

Yahoo reports:

Meta’s head of people, Lori Goler, wrote in an internal forum that the new rules were effective immediately and that off-limit topics include abortion, the effectiveness of vaccines, and gun rights, as well as political issues, including civil movements and elections, Fortune reported.

“We’re doing this to ensure that internal discussions remain respectful, productive, and allow us to focus,” Goler wrote, per Fortune. “This comes with the trade-off that we’ll no longer allow for every type of expression at work, but we think this is the right thing to do for the long-term health of our internal community.”