Meta faces discrimination lawsuit over AI use in mass layoffs

Meta faces a federal discrimination lawsuit alleging it used AI systems including keystroke monitoring, token-usage dashboards, and performance ranking to systematically target employees on medical or family leave for layoffs during its May 10% workforce reduction. The complaint claims these AI-driven methods failed to account for protected absences, effectively penalising employees for exercising legal leave rights. If you're selling AI tools for workforce decisions—hiring, layoff, promotion scoring—you now have proven liability. Meta's use of keystroke monitoring and engagement dashboards that penalise protected leave just became the template for how regulators and plaintiffs' lawyers will attack opaque AI decision-making in people operations.