Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters in late April:
Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’
computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for
use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a
broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks
autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by
Reuters.The tool, called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), will run on
work-related apps and websites and will also take occasional
snapshots of the content on employees’ screens, according to one
of the memos, posted by a staff AI research scientist on Tuesday
in a channel for the company’s model-building Meta
SuperIntelligence Labs team.
I love this. Anyone who works at Meta knows who they’re working for. I hope they’re all as creeped out by this as I would be. What I’d really like to know is how far up the chain does go? If they have any honor, every single employee at the company, right up to Zuckerberg, would get this MCI spyware. I presume that’s the not the case, and there’s a two-class system where if you’re high enough in the org chart, you don’t get it. I would love to hear from any little birdies about this, but I don’t have many little birdies in Menlo Park. (Alan, baby, help me out?)
Also:
Meta is planning to lay off 10% of its workforce globally
starting on May 20 and is eyeing additional large cuts later
this year.
If I worked there I’d raise my hand to get a buyout, but, I’d never work there in the first place.
Horwitz, by the way, won a 2026 Pulitzer for his investigative coverage Meta.
