Meta’s AI-Powered Layoff Anthem: An Employee Radio for 8,000 Cuts
A Meta employee used the company’s AI tools to launch an internal radio station, 520 FM, featuring AI-generated songs about the company’s 8,000 layoffs (10% of its workforce) as Meta shifts toward an AI-first strategy. The tracks span genres from hip-hop to acoustic, with lines like “Meta layoff,” and were described as a coping mechanism and distraction by staff; Meta did not comment. The piece illustrates how AI tools are influencing workplace culture amid large-scale corporate cuts.