Meta faces lawsuit over AI-driven layoffs targeting workers with disabilities

Twenty-six employees lost jobs; potentially thousands more affected by allegedly discriminatory AI-driven layoff selection targeting workers with medical conditions or disabilities.

In the spring of 2026, Meta reduced its workforce by nearly eight thousand people — a restructuring the company called necessary, but which twenty-six former employees now call something darker. Filed in federal court in Oakland, their lawsuit alleges that an AI system quietly sorted human vulnerability into a termination metric, penalizing workers for the very absences that disability and medical leave laws were designed to protect. The case arrives at a moment when society is still learning what it means to hold an algorithm accountable for a decision that looks, on the surface, like no one'

Meta faces lawsuit over AI-driven layoffs targeting workers with disabilities

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