Meta is facing a lawsuit from 26 employees who allege the tech giant used artificial intelligence to identify workers for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those who had taken protected leave.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, claims Meta deployed internal AI tools, keystroke and activity monitoring, AI usage dashboards, and algorithm-assisted performance rankings to determine who would be cut from its workforce. These cuts impacted approximately 8,000 employees, representing about 10% of the company's total staff.
