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Facebook Parent Meta Platforms To Lay Off 5% Of Staff; CEO Mark Zuckerberg Warns Of “Intense” Year Ahead


Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms plans to lay off about 5% of its workforce, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg warning of an "intense" year ahead.

It has already been a newsy 2025 for the tech giant, with Zuckerberg ending the company’s fact-checking efforts and naming UFC head Dana White to the board of directors earlier this month. Meta also updated its policy on “hateful conduct,” with users’ discussion of immigrants, women and transgender and nonbinary people graded on more of a curve. Many conservatives have insisted for years that Meta and other tech giants have been biased against their point of view, arguing that content moderation efforts amount to censorship.

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