Meta Fired Hundreds and a Court Just Took Away Its Plot Armor

Hundreds of Meta employees just got laid off so Mark Zuckerberg can buy more GPUs and call it “the future.”

Meta’s doing the classic Silicon Valley blood ritual: cut humans, feed the AI, tell Wall Street you’re “laser-focused.”

The company’s pitching this as a shift toward AI priorities, which is adorable because “AI priorities” somehow always means the same thing: fewer salaries, more servers, bigger bonuses, and a press release that reads like it was written by a hostage negotiator.

And here’s the spicy part: a court ruling just smacked one of Meta’s key legal protections, meaning the “you can’t sue us, it’s the internet” shield got a few holes punched in it. That opens the door to more lawsuits, more discovery, more emails getting read out loud in court like a group chat from hell.

Meanwhile, the only department that never gets laid off is Legal, because nothing says “innovation” like billing 12 minutes to write “we deny all allegations” in five different fonts.

If you work in tech, this is the new deal: you’re not competing with your coworkers, you’re competing with a court calendar and a quarterly earnings call. If you’re a user, congrats — you get whatever product is left after the engineers are gone and the lawyers are fed.