Exclusive: Departing Meta Staffer Posts Biting Anti-AI Video Internally Amid Mass Layoffs

If you work for Meta, you lose the right to post any sort of self-righteous bullshit. None of this is new

I feel like they should’ve known this was coming. They were just in denial.

getting fired so the CEO can buy more AI servers and then roasting them on their own internal platform on the way out. legend behavior

I’m looking forward to rejecting these douches in interviews over the next few months. I prefer hiring people who didn’t contribute to the decline of civilization.

>Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s Chief Technology Officer and a 20-year veteran of the company, gets name checked multiple times for promoting an internal monitoring software called MCI, or Model Capability Initiative, that the company installed on the computers of US employees this spring. MCI tracks the way humans interact with their screens, capturing mouse clicks and keyboard strokes to train AI to appear more “human-like.”

hmm why does that name sound familiar…

>Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.

>“We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,” VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth wrote.

>“So we connect more people,” he wrote in another section of the memo. “That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies.

>“Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”

>Bosworth, one of the company’s most outspoken employees, has also recently emerged as an outspoken defender of Facebook through his Twitter account. He responded to this story there, tweeting: “I don’t agree with the post today and I didn’t agree with it when I wrote it. The purpose of this post, like many others I have written internally, was to bring to the surface issues I felt deserved more discussion with the broader company.”

>“He is definitely a guy who isn’t very diplomatic — he’d blunder into internal debates and internal comms would tend to keep an eye on what he’s doing and posting,” one former senior employee told BuzzFeed News. “The memo is classic Boz because it speaks to the majority of Facebook employee views but it’s also polarizing. Tonally he doesn’t mince words. This is clearly a post meant to rally the troops.”

>The Bosworth memo, which stresses the extent to which Facebook was built on “growth tactics,” reads as a statement of corporate principles, including phrases like “what we do” and “what we believe” and speaking of “our work” and “our imperative.” In the memo, he argued that Facebook believes its mission of connecting people is so important that anything it does in support of it is “*de facto* good” — even if it allows some to do true, even catastrophic, harm to others.

>“The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto* good. It is perhaps the only area where the metrics do tell the true story as far as we are concerned,” he wrote. “That isn’t something we are doing for ourselves. Or for our stock price (ha!). It is literally just what we do. We connect people. Period.”

[Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed by Ryan Mac, Charlie Warzel & Alex Kantrowitz 29 March 2018](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data)

Oh, right. There’s more to the story, it’s a long read.

Politics is downstream from culture.

When the “social” media “technologists” are literally saying

>“Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”

We shouldn’t be surprised at *gestures broadly, points to [Rohingya](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/), points to the entirety of “politics”*

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edit: While I’m at it, just to remind you that zuckerburg has constructed a scam not unlike the charity that trump stole from (“the chan zuckerberg institute”) – there’s numerous examples, like the weird “science prizes” they started giving out around 2012, but lets focus on this one for now

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/09/for-the-ambitious-ed-tech-company-altschool-its-time-for-phase-two/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/07/altschools-disrupted-education

Meanwhile, in reality

https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/23/primary-school-closure-zuckerberg-chan-funding/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/tech/chan-zuckerberg-primary-school-closing

Do the two people implicated in this comment – boz and zuck – have good intentions or evil ones? I don’t really know, and don’t really care ultimately because NO PERSON SHOULD HAVE UNLIMITED RESOURCES LIKE THEY HAVE HAD. PERIOD. delete the crony capitalism, fix the world. Simple.

Pro tip: Don’t effing work for Meta.

Burning the bridge on your way out is the only proper way to handle a tech layoff.

I’m looking for the worlds tiniest violin to play for these people. Talking about smart and creative people working at one of the most evil companies in the world. “But people just need jobs!!” Yes, but they don’t need to help destroy humanity. There are plenty of other jobs where these people could’ve worked for