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Toyota Ditches Woke Corporate Policies

Toyota Motor Corporation announced Thursday that it will no longer sponsor LGBTQ parades and events, and will no longer engage in efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Toyota told employees it would no longer participate in the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index or other corporate surveys. Instead, we will “focus our community […]

Starbucks ditches Italian pastry brand Princi at Reserve stores

Starbucks will stop selling Italian brand baked goods in most of its upscale cafes, eliminating a popular label introduced by former CEO Howard Schultz. The Seattle-based coffee chain is phasing out its Princi line of pastries and other baked goods from the menus of its eight Roastery and Reserve stores in the U.S. and China. […]

Gen Z ditches Google for this next most popular search engine

If you don't understand something, just search for “TikTok” instead of “Google.” Young people these days are abandoning the trusty search engines in favor of social media and other unorthodox means of online research. Bernstein, citing data from a Forbes Advisor/Talker Research survey of 2,000 Americans conducted in April 2024, reported that 45% of Gen […]

Molson Coors Ditches Corporate Diversity Programs

Beer giant Molson Coors announced Tuesday that it was cutting its corporate diversity program, becoming the latest company to abandon diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Molson Coors Sent The company informed employees that it would stop linking executive compensation to diversity hiring, eliminate supplier diversity targets and no longer cooperate with the Human Rights Campaign's […]

Bud Light ditches fake chick for Shane Gillis

Bud Light has removed its beer goggles. The mega brand learned a few lessons from its expensive Dylan Mulvaney experiment, one of which is that fake women don't sell beer. In an effort to move past the ensuing boycott, Bud Light hired comedian Shane Gillis to star in a commercial that harkened back to the […]

Meta ditches ‘misinformation’ tracking tool CrowdTangle

Meta, the social media giant owned by Mark Zuckerberg, has shut down CrowdTangle, an investigative tool used to monitor social media posts that are suspected to contain misinformation. The move upset a series of nonprofits, who wrote letters to protest Meta’s move to a new tool called Content Library. Their issue stems from Meta’s restriction […]