Meta has confirmed a large-scale redundancy process, affecting about 3,700 employees, representing 5% of its workforce. This move follows CEO Mark Zuckerberg's directive to expedite the removal of low-performing workers. While the company gears up for a financially intense year in 2025, focusing on AI investments and expanding hiring in machine learning, it is also retracting from fact-checking measures to prioritize free speech as political dynamics shift. The company remains tight-lipped about the layoffs, emphasizing that these were already announced earlier this year.
In recent years we've developed increasingly complex systems to manage content across our platforms, partly in response to societal and political pressure to moderate content. This approach has gone too far. As well-intentioned as many of these efforts have been, they have expanded over time to the point where we are making too many mistakes, frustrating our users and too often getting in the way of the free expression we set out to enable.
These are performance terminations which were already announced in mid-January. They start today.
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