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Meta to Slash 8,000 Jobs This Week Amid $145B AI Push (www.techrepublic.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47062523

Amazing for motivation: “Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives,” an Instagram employee told WIRED”

That is just where we want Meta ;)

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He renamed Facebook to meta because the leak of Facebook data to Cambridge Analytica and revelations by whistle blower Frances Haugen damaged the Facebook brand.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 5 hours ago

Fortunately it worked very well for him and we all have a very positive view of meta.