Meta's Real Story Isn't the Layoffs. It's the Surveillance.

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On April 23, Meta told 8,000 employees they would be walking out the door on May 20. The next morning, Microsoft announced the first voluntary retirement program in its 51-year history - up to 8,750 people eligible. Six weeks earlier, Block gutted 40% of its workforce, citing its own internal AI agent. The headlines write themselves: "AI is eating the tech industry," "the labor crisis is here." 📖 Read the full version with charts and embedded sources on ComputeLeap → That's the story everyone is telling. It's also the wrong one. The real story is happening inside Meta's own walls.