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359 NYT: 'Meta's Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable'

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/10/2026 03:34 EDT

NYT:  'Meta's Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable'

"Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable," reports the New York Times.

And "After Meta said late last month that it would start tracking employees' computer use, hundreds of workers spoke up." (One employee even told Meta's CTO in an internal post, "Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning."
In an internal post last month, Meta told its U.S. employees that it was making a change that would affect tens of thousands of them. What employees typed into their compute

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