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Meta to Slash 8,000 Jobs in Push for 'Efficiency', Keystrokes and Clicks Tracked 96%
4/25/2026, 3:25:37 AM
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Meta is announcing major layoffs as part of its quest for efficiency.
It's also closely tracking its workers' activities to train the company's AI technology.
NTD's Shawn Marshall has more on the latest AI disruption taking place in Meta's own workforce.
In what Meta calls a continued effort to run the company more efficiently, the company's training artificial intelligence by capturing mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes of its workers, while simultaneously planning to lay off roughly 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people.
You know, when a company makes a decision like this, they know that they're going to have pushback.
They know that there are going to be people upset about it, but we're largely in this era where there are not governance standards that prevent them from doing this.
The company is also closing around 6,000 open roles.
Janelle Gale, Meta's chief people officer, wrote in a memo published by Bloomberg that Meta confirmed.
Right.
One side is we collect a bunch of data, and that data is usable to train these AI models.
Um, and the other side of it is employees get upset enough and they quit, and we have a reduction in our workforce without having to conduct layoffs.
Right?
And both of those scenarios seem to be uh acceptable to Meta.
Going into effect on May 20th, these are the latest in a string of tech industry layoffs partially fueled by artificial intelligence disruptions.
You know, really I think the the kind of key insight here is workers are not just being replaced by AI, they're actively being used to train their replacements in real time.
Right?
So, that's a very different scenario than what we've seen historically play out.
Also part of Meta's broad initiative is to build AI agents that can perform more tasks autonomously to replicate how humans interact with computers.
I think the leaders at companies like Meta are doing what they believe to be in the best interest of shareholders to capitalize on this technology, and ultimately we'll probably see more regulation coming out that works to do so in a way that also preserves the interest of the employees and the macro economic interest of the United States as a whole.
Meta is installing the new tracking software in their US-based employees' computers.
Shawn Marshall, NTD News.
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