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Meta (Facebook)

Social media giant pivoting hard to AI with Llama models and AI-powered content systems.

Menlo Park, CA67,000 employees
Employee Risk Score
70%
AI Adoption Score
88%

AI Strategy

Open-source AI leader with Llama. Zuckerberg declared 2024 "year of efficiency" with AI replacing human moderators.

Layoff History

1,600
Total Layoffs
1,600
AI-Related
100%
AI-Caused
500 employeesAI-Related

Eliminating fact-checkers, replacing with AI

Fact-CheckingContent Policy
Jan 22, 2025
400 employeesAI-Related

AI replacing content moderation roles

Content ModerationTrust & Safety
Aug 20, 2024
700 employeesAI-Related

Shifting resources to AI infrastructure

Reality LabsInstagram
Apr 18, 2024

AI Tools Deployed

Llama 3LLM
Deployed: 2024-04
Impacted roles: Content Moderators, Writers
Meta AIAssistant
Deployed: 2024-04
Impacted roles: Customer Support
AI StudioCreator Tools
Deployed: 2024-07
Impacted roles: Video Editors, Creators
Segment AnythingVision
Deployed: 2023-04
Impacted roles: Image Editors

Roles at Risk

Content Moderators
Fact-Checkers
Community Managers
Marketing Analysts
Customer Support

Growing Roles

AI Infrastructure Engineers
ML Researchers
AI Ethics Specialists
Creator Tools Developers

How to Protect Your Career at Meta (Facebook)

Learn Llama and open-source AI development
Pivot from moderation to AI training/oversight
Develop AI content creation skills
Build expertise in AI safety and ethics

Recent News

Meta ends fact-checking in favor of AI community notes

2025-01-07

Llama 3.3 outperforms GPT-4 on benchmarks

2024-12-06

Meta AI reaches 500M monthly users

2024-11-01

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