The year might start on a sour note for several employees working at Meta as Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of the company that owns WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, has announced a massive layoff which will be affecting five % of Meta’s workforce. According to the media reports, an internal memo of the company has mentioned a massive Meta layoff in which approximately 3,600 employees who are low-performers, will be fired and replaced by new people.
Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg said, “I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster.” He further said that the layoffs are being done to ensure that Meta is able to ‘bring new people in’ and has the ‘strongest talent’. This Meta layoff has been announced amid Zuckerberg discontinuing the fact-checking programme for all its platforms in the US and for ordering removal of tampons from men’s bathrooms at the Meta office, in an overhaul of its policies.
According to the media reports, in a report titled ‘Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era’, Meta has ordered the removal of tampons that were placed in the men’s bathrooms, for non-binary and transgender employees, to promote inclusivity. Meta’s Chief Global Officer Joel Kaplan said that this step has been taken to end company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programmes and ensure that the company ‘is building teams with the most talented people’.
He further said, “We have a new administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor and is more a huge supporter of free expression. It gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on.” Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it’s scrapping its third-party fact checking programme and replacing it with a Community Notes programme written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk’s social media platform X. Starting in the US, Meta will end its fact checking programme with independent third parties. The company said it decided to end the programme because expert fact checkers had their own biases and too much content ended up being fact checked
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