{"id":21103,"date":"2025-01-29T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21103"},"modified":"2025-01-29T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:25:38","slug":"silicon-valley-tech-workers-quietly-protest-their-bosses-embrace-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21103","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses\u2019 Embrace of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies, their mostly left-leaning employees have objected with subtle acts of defiance.<\/p>\n

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Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men\u2019s bathrooms at Meta\u2019s offices.<\/p>\n

Days earlier, Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, Meta\u2019s chief executive, had made a series of changes at his company, aligning with President Trump\u2019s new administration.<\/a> As part of the moves, Mr. Zuckerberg eliminated diversity initiatives in the workplace \u2014 something that Mr. Trump had criticized \u2014 and removed sanitary products from the men\u2019s bathrooms, which had been provided for transgender and nonbinary employees who may have required them.<\/p>\n

To protest Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s actions, some Meta workers soon brought their own tampons, pads and liners to the men\u2019s bathrooms, five people with knowledge of the effort said. A group of employees also circulated a petition to save the tampons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The sanitary products were emblematic of the quiet rebellions that Silicon Valley workers have staged as they grapple with the rightward shift of their bosses. In a major departure for a tech industry that has typically leaned left and liberal, Mr. Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, Apple chief Tim Cook and Google co-founder Sergey Brin have embraced Mr. Trump, including by appearing at his inauguration<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From left, Sergey Brin, Google\u2019s co-founder, and Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook at Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.<\/span>Pool photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Their support for Mr. Trump has caused consternation across tech workforces, which have generally been pro-immigration and supportive of diversity and inclusion efforts. Yet rather than make loud, public protests to oppose the shift, many tech employees have instead carried out more subtle acts of defiance.<\/p>\n

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As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies, their mostly left-leaning employees have objected with subtle acts of defiance.Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men\u2019s bathrooms at Meta\u2019s offices.Days earlier, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, had made a series of changes at his company, aligning with President Trump\u2019s new administration. As part of the moves, Mr. Zuckerberg eliminated diversity initiatives in the workplace \u2014 something that Mr. Trump had criticized \u2014 and removed sanitary products from the men\u2019s bathrooms, which had been provided for transgender and nonbinary employees who may have required them.To protest Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s actions, some Meta workers soon brought their own tampons, pads and liners to the men\u2019s bathrooms, five people with knowledge of the effort said. A group of employees also circulated a petition to save the tampons.The sanitary products were emblematic of the quiet rebellions that Silicon Valley workers have staged as they grapple with the rightward shift of their bosses. In a major departure for a tech industry that has typically leaned left and liberal, Mr. Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, Apple chief Tim Cook and Google co-founder Sergey Brin have embraced Mr. Trump, including by appearing at his inauguration last week.From left, Sergey Brin, Google\u2019s co-founder, and Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook at Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.Pool photo by Julia Demaree NikhinsonTheir support for Mr. Trump has caused consternation across tech workforces, which have generally been pro-immigration and supportive of diversity and inclusion efforts. Yet rather than make loud, public protests to oppose the shift, many tech employees have instead carried out more subtle acts of defiance.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21105,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21106,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103\/revisions\/21106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}