Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
More than two dozen former employees claim Meta used AI to rank workers’ performance, but failed to exclude people on medical leave.
by Emma Roth
Jul 14, 2026, 5:18 PM UTC
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A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employees allege Meta determined which workers to dismiss based on performance data collected by a “constellation” of internal AI tools, but failed to exclude those on parental or medical leave from its ranking system:
The result was that employees who took protected leaves were disproportionately selected for...
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