India, Jan. 19 -- It's a tiny word, an acronym to be precise, but few topics have been as explosive or divisive as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in Donald Trump's America.

In an election campaign where Trump made race, gender and 'wokeism' central issues, promising to rollback DEI initiatives and scoffing at Kamala Harris as a 'DEI candidate', no surprises that vast swathes of corporate America has quickly fallen into line with its own announcements.

The most recent to join the party is Meta, the parent company for Facebook and Instagram. Days after scrapping its third-party fact-checking programme, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was junking its DEI programme. Meta, reports AP, will no longer have a team focused on diversity and in...