India, Nov. 10 -- Three of the world's biggest tech companies, Meta, Google and Microsoft, are quietly stepping back from a decade-long transparency practice. According to a Wired investigation, all three companies have stopped publishing their annual diversity reports, documents that previously detailed the gender and racial composition of their global workforces.

The move marks a significant reversal. Since 2014, these reports have been a key tool for tracking progress, or lack of it, in the tech industry's push toward better representation. Now, Google, Microsoft and Meta say they will no longer publish them, even as competitors like Apple, Amazon and Nvidia continue sharing updated diversity data.

Wired reports, citing employees fam...