Mark Zuckerberg is finally embracing his real persona. No surprise here: he is not pleasant.

A fresh report from the New York Times explores how Zuck enlisted a compact group of leaders to assist in reshaping Meta platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Threads to his liking. So far, this includes terminating fact-checking, retracting moderation guidelines that safeguarded marginalized groups, and intensifying the algorithm to push more political content. As per a memo to employees accessed by Axios, you can now add diversity, equity, and inclusion to the list of priorities that Zuckerberg’s enterprises have abandoned.

The company disclosed that it will dismantle its DEI department, cease efforts to partner with minority-owned supplier businesses, and terminate representation objectives, among other policy turnarounds. These transformations will be implemented immediately.

This lean towards the right follows Zuckerberg’s Thanksgiving trip to Mar-a-Lago, where he mingled with President-elect Donald Trump. However, as noted by the Times, this has been simmering within Meta’s CEO for quite a while. He reportedly felt compelled to embrace “progressive” causes—like those radical left-based beliefs such as “equal opportunity is beneficial” and “you shouldn’t just be able to fabricate information”—due to his staff and external pressures. Behind closed doors, the Times mentions he’s been dialoguing with the erratic Marc Andreessen and others about adopting a “free speech” strategy to operate his enterprises.

Interestingly, Zuckerberg’s techno-libertarian interpretation of “free speech” resembles “marginalizing suppressed individuals” in effect. Zuck, alongside his limited circle of similar-thinking fiends, revised company content moderation regulations so that expressions like “white people have mental illness” would be forbidden but saying “gay individuals have mental illness” would be allowed, for instance.  Additionally, the company removed transgender and nonbinary theme options from its Messenger chat app.

Then there’s the verdict to terminate DEI initiatives. Meta asserted the rationale for the decision was because “the legal and policy framework surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion endeavors in the United States is evolving.” In the memo secured by Axios, Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of human resources, referenced the Supreme Court’s recent rulings “indicating a change in how courts will handle DEI”—an obvious nod to SCOTUS’ judgment to eliminate affirmative action programs in college admissions, as well as an impending “reverse discrimination” case the court will adjudicate that might establish a precedent for challenging DEI efforts.

Yet, more broadly, the decision seems to mirror Zuckerberg’s ideology. His acquaintances in Silicon Valley’s venture capital community have long criticized DEI programs, envisioning themselves as proponents of meritocracy while dismissing the notion that someone from a less privileged background might encounter discrimination if they were truly as competent as their peers. Of course, the reality is meritocracy is an illusion. Indeed, studies have indicated that believing achievements are due to merit results in reduced empathy and increased discriminatory conduct.

This marks a significant shift from how the company portrayed itself in recent years. After all, just last summer, the company successfully defended one of its DEI initiatives in court. In 2023, Meta publicly declared, “Our dedication to DEI remains central to our identity as a company.” And just two years ago, Meta released a diversity report highlighting how it managed to recruit more talent from underrepresented communities by hiring more remote staff. (Since then, the company has announced a return to office directive disproportionately impacting those same employees.)

From all the policies that Zuckerberg has introduced across his organization in recent weeks, it’s evident that there is one type of diversity he is entirely done with: Diversity of thought that challenges him.