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Those spared latest Meta job cuts forcibly reassigned to AI roles

According to the article, Meta employees who were not laid off in the latest round of job cuts are being forcibly reassigned to artificial intelligence roles. The staff have protested this restructuring and the company's use of mouse tracking, which they have dubbed the "Employee Data Extraction Factory."

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