{"id":1021073,"date":"2026-07-15T09:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021073"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:07:37","slug":"meta-faces-accusations-of-using-ai-to-target-workers-with-medical-conditions-in-mass-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/meta-faces-accusations-of-using-ai-to-target-workers-with-medical-conditions-in-mass-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces accusations of using AI to target workers with medical conditions in mass layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-six former employees of Meta Platforms have filed a \u200blawsuit against the tech company, accusing it \u200cof using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who took medical leave in selecting people \u200bfor mass layoffs. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed in \u200bOakland, California, federal court late Monday, says that \u2060the company relied on factors such as \u200bproductivity and AI token usage when it began slashing thousands \u200bof jobs earlier this year, disadvantaging people who missed work because of medical conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-six former employees of Meta Platforms have filed a \u200blawsuit against the tech company, accusing it \u200cof using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who took medical leave in selecting people \u200bfor mass layoffs. The lawsuit, filed in \u200bOakland, California, federal court late Monday, says that \u2060the company relied on factors such as \u200bproductivity and AI token usage when it began slashing thousands \u200bof jobs earlier this year, disadvantaging people who missed work because of medical conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021085,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021073\/revisions\/1021085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}