Another week, another Meta PR disaster. Are we shocked? Nahhhh. Here's your Meta chaos roundup. Enjoy 💅1/
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Another week, another Meta PR disaster. Are we shocked? Nahhhh. Here's your Meta chaos roundup. Enjoy 💅1/
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On Monday, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth pledged a return to better working conditions for disgruntled employees after an admittedly “atrocious” AI reorg. But what went wrong? 2/
Well, for one, life at the newly assembled Applied AI team is “literally the gulag”, one anonymous employee told WIRED. Sudden isolation and drudgework tasks are dragging morale to a record low. /3
Recent mass layoffs at Meta have done little to lift spirits. According to communications seen by WIRED, one former employee who lost their job in May was reportedly detained by ICE in recent days. Meta’s response? No comment. /4
No wonder then that Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last Friday for a companywide AI hackathon wasn’t warmly received within Meta’s thinning ranks. /5