Mark Zuckerberg removes tampons from men’s bathrooms at Meta offices: report

"That same day at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley," The New York Times reported, "Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said."

Some people could hardly beleive that this had been the state of things at the social media giant.

The move comes as Zuckerberg has made a sharp, right political pivot in recent months. He had a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home after which he announced a change to the fact-checking policies at Meta, announced that the content moderation team would be moving to Texas, and said that the era of censorship on both Instagram and Facebook was over.

The Times notes that the process by which these changes have been made is different than status quo for the company. "The entire process was highly unusual," the Times said. "Meta typically alters policies that govern its apps — which include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads — by inviting employees, civic leaders and others to weigh in. Any shifts generally take months. But Mr. Zuckerberg turned this latest effort into a closely held six-week sprint, blindsiding even employees on his policy and integrity teams."

Facebook especially had been a bastion of woke during the Trump years and the Covid era. It was in 2020 that Facebook had implemented a third-party fact-checking program that allowed groups to go through user posts and flag those for removal or suppression that did not align with specific, partisan narratives. Those fact-checkers suppressed and censored user content about the 2020 election, about gender ideology, about climate change, and about Covid lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and vaccine efficacy, among other things.

When a post was flagged by a fact-checker, the user would be notified and often the post would no longer be available, making it hard for the user to appeal the ruling of the fact-checkers. Once the fact-checker made a final decision on an appeal, no further appeal was possible.

Facebook fact-checkers flagged, suppressed and censored posts that said men aren't women. Meanwhile, the DEI practices inside Meta engaged in the absurd practice of providing feminine menstrual hygiene products to men.

The Times states that Zuckerberg is engaged in a "spring to remake Meta for the Trump era," and there have been other vocal critics of Zuckerberg who claim that his about face ought not be believed. However, Zuckerberg vowed to stop donating to Democrat political campaigns, to bring in more conservative voices at the platform, switched his own political affiliation from Democrat to Libertarian, and has revealed the extent of the censorship efforts that came from the government against the users on the platforms.

He brought in Republican strategist Brian Baker as well as UFC CEO Dana White as a beginning to the platform's shift away from the left and toward the center.