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'Anti-woke': US big tech companies stop publishing diversity data

Three of the largest technology companies in the United States – Google, Microsoft, and Meta – have decided to stop publishing annual reports on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), ending a decade-long practice that began with pressure from civil rights movements.

Google, which had been publishing statistics on the racial and gender composition of its workforce since 2014, informed employees that it does not intend to release new data in 2025. This was confirmed by the two giants.

The suspension marks a significant loss of transparency in the sector and contrasts with decisions by peers such as Apple, Amazon, and Nvidia, which maintained the practice in 2025. Apple and Amazon continued to disclose data to the US government through EEO-1 reports, short for Equal Employment Opportunity, required of companies with more than 100 employees.

The decision comes months after Donald Trump's return to the US presidency in January 2025. The Republican issued an executive order directing federal agencies to combat "illegal private sector preferences" linked to DEI, which includes the possibility of lawsuits against companies that consider identity as a hiring criterion.

Diversity reports have become an important tool for lawsuits and public campaigns. In 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a study with data from more than a decade indicating that "discrimination likely contributes to the low representation of women, Black people, Hispanics, and older people in the technology sector."

The Future of Diversity: Regression or Reconfiguration?...The debate about representation and the presence of diverse groups in the arts and culture shows no clear signs of closure or total reversal. What is perceived in 2025 is a phase of adjustment and reassessment, with different sectors and audiences testing new limits and guiding strategies in the face of ongoing political and social pressures.

Market movements, coupled with research on audience behavior, show that diversity tends to consolidate in a more strategic way and less dependent on trends or current pressures, becoming an integral part of creative processes and commercial decisions.

Regardless of conservative waves or criticism of the so-called "woke" agenda, the economic and symbolic potential of representation continues to act as a driving force for innovation and the construction of new spaces for cultural expression. The current environment may be one of caution, but it does not point to the erasure of achievements, but rather to new dialogues about how and why to represent the multiplicity of contemporary society.

Umbilical alignment..."What is happening today is a true collusion between big tech companies and the Trump administration...What big tech companies want today is to have superpowers to be above any state in the world; recently, the European Union imposed severe fines on Google, but the Donald Trump administration has already intervened to shield it, and even now the fines have been suspended...This shows that this umbilical alignment of tech companies with Trump simply serves to give them even more power than they already have today and to make them immune to any kind of interference from any government in the world that could threaten their hegemonic position..." said site mundophone

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