{"id":1022358,"date":"2026-07-20T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022358"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:30:42","slug":"after-8000-layoffs-meta-taken-to-court-by-former-employees-who-claim-that-%e2%81%a0the-company-used-internal-ai-systems-to-select-people-to-be-fired-and-gave-them-scores-and-ratings-based-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/after-8000-layoffs-meta-taken-to-court-by-former-employees-who-claim-that-%e2%81%a0the-company-used-internal-ai-systems-to-select-people-to-be-fired-and-gave-them-scores-and-ratings-based-on\/","title":{"rendered":"After 8,000 layoffs, Meta taken to court by former employees who claim that \u2060the company used internal AI systems to select people to be fired and gave them scores and ratings based on &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta laid off 8,000 employees last month. The company is now facing a lawsuit from 26 current workers who claim artificial intelligence (AI) systems helped decide who would lose their jobs. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Oakland, California, alleges Meta used internal AI tools, keystroke and activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards and algorithm-assisted performance rankings to select employees for layoffs. The workers claim the system unfairly affected employees who were on medical, parental or family leave because it failed to account for legally protected absences. The social media giant has denied the allegations, saying people\u2014not AI\u2014made workforce decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Meta employees claim it used AI scores to decide layoffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta laid off 8,000 employees last month. The company is now facing a lawsuit from 26 current workers who claim artificial intelligence (AI) systems helped decide who would lose their jobs. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Oakland, California, alleges Meta used internal AI tools, keystroke and activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards and algorithm-assisted performance rankings to select employees for layoffs. The workers claim the system unfairly affected employees who were on medical, parental or family leave because it failed to account for legally protected absences. The social media giant has denied the allegations, saying people\u2014not AI\u2014made workforce decisions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022358","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022360,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022358\/revisions\/1022360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}