Leaked Recording: Zuckerberg Reveals Meta Tracked Employees Across Gmail, GChat, VSCode to Train AI Before Mass Layoffs
r/singularity / Common Dreams / Multiple Sources·high signal
A leaked audio recording from a Meta all-hands meeting, obtained by More Perfect Union, captures Mark Zuckerberg explaining that Meta monitored employee activity across Gmail, GChat, internal tool Metamate, and VSCode to train its AI models before laying off those same employees. Multiple outlets (The Week, eWeek, Common Dreams, IBTimes) confirmed the audio. The revelation adds a surveillance dimension to Meta's AI-driven layoff strategy and has sparked significant backlash across r/singularity (188 upvotes, 59 comments).