Publication platform Medium He says he is still committed to diversity, equality and integration (Dei), as well as many other US technology companies have reduced their efforts in this area to calm Trump’s administration. To one blog Published on Monday, Medium Tony Stubblebine CEO supported the company’s different community, saying that businesses should not choose between integration and profit.
In addition, more people estimate “understanding and respecting over hatred and division,” the CEO said, explaining that the wars of culture and voice to others are not an effective way to change the mind.
As a publication platform, Stubblebine reports that the middle are taking advantage of different voices and that people who come to the space to expand their understanding of the world see diversity as a force, not a threat.
“To understand the full framework of a situation, you must hear from someone with a different life experience from yours,” the executive wrote. “The prospects of people from marginalized communities are basic views that deserve to be heard.”
He also claimed that diversity is a competitive advantage.
“As CEO, I feel confident that the embrace of diversity as a strategy increases the businesses, cultural and mental capabilities of our company,” he wrote.
In addition, the company’s policies focus on building a political platform for readers and writers, where “hatred, threats of violence, harassment, racial abuse, promotion of pseudoscience or misinformation, harmful stereotypes, are not inferior”.
This contradicts the policies that guide the competitor of the medium, which takes a more “freedom of speech” approach To mitigate the content. This, in turn, allowed white nationalists To find a place in ustackleading to a User reaction.
Co -founder Hamish McKenzie has Even went to files To say that the company did not believe that “censorship” measures, including blogs, would help the problem disappear.
The medium adopts a different approach. And, at a time when the preservation of Dei policies has been politicized, is an attitude that only a handful of companies were willing to take.
In all the US, big companies such as McDonald’s, Harley-Davidson, Booz Allen, John Deree’s, Lowe’s, Ford, Mols Coors, Walmart and Target, among others, have transferred the DEI policies. Apple, Delta, Costco, JPMorgan and McKinsey, meanwhile, said they will remain committed to diversity efforts.
The Medium was founded by co -founder Twitter Evan Williams and Stubblebine assumed the role of CEO in July 2022, as Williams was transferred to become chairman of the Board of Directors. The company today claims to have over a million members (paid subscribers) and reaches 100 million people each month, including both readers and authors. The company reported its first profitable month last summer, but as a private company, no profits.
