Meta/Facebook removes tampons from men’s bathrooms

Mark Zuckerberg is making some changes at Meta.

The billionaire businessman ordered the removal of menstrual products, such as tampons and pads, from the men’s bathrooms at the company’s offices…

Mark Zuckerberg is making some changes at Meta.

The billionaire businessman ordered the removal of menstrual products, such as tampons and pads, from the men’s bathrooms at the company’s offices in California, Texas and New York, Fox News reports.

Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Since the 2024 presidential election, Zuckerberg has ordered various policy changes at his Silicon Valley-based company to move it more in line with the conservative values that seemed popular among American voters in November.

Notably, Meta will also end its fact-checking program across social media platforms. Critics long contested that the fact-checkers had a liberal bias and over-policed right-leaning content. 

Additionally, Facebook loosened its so-called hate speech policy, eliminated its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and eliminated its transgender chat themes, Straight Arrow News reports

Zuckerberg recently admitted the extent of pressure from the Biden administration to censor content.

“Basically, these people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse,” Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan on his podcast. “It just got to this point where we were like, ‘No, we’re not gonna, we’re not gonna take down things that are true. That’s ridiculous.'”

Zuckerberg also said that he dislikes the ongoing efforts to demonize masculinity in America.

“It’s one thing to say we want to be kind of like welcoming and make a good environment for everyone and I think it’s another to basically say that ‘masculinity is bad,’ and I just think we kind of swung culturally to that part of the – the kind of – the spectrum,” Zuckerberg told Rogan. 

Once a backer of Democrat politicians, Zuckerberg didn’t endorse anyone in the 2024 presidential election and identifies as a classical liberal, according to the New York Times. He also spoke with President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, following the assassination attempt against him. 

Zuckerberg has also acknowledged that accusations of political bias have tarnished the perception of his company – damage that will likely take years to fix. 

“I think it’s going to take another 10 years or so for us to fully work through that cycle before our brand is back to the place that it could have been,” Zuckerberg said last year, according to the New York Times, “if I hadn’t messed up in the first place.”

Although Facebook removed tampons from men’s bathrooms, they remain in boys’ public school bathrooms in Democrat-controlled states such as Oregon, Connecticut and Minnesota.