{"id":1247205,"date":"2022-11-09T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/facebook-owner-meta-to-cut-13-of-its-workforce\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:02:25","slug":"facebook-owner-meta-to-cut-13-of-its-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/facebook-owner-meta-to-cut-13-of-its-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook owner Meta to cut 13% of its workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Facebook.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A former Facebook content moderator has sued the social media giant&#8217;s parent company Meta<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it will cut 13% of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>In total 11,000 employees are to be laid off from its worldwide headcount of 87,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement,\u00a0Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the cuts were \u201csome of the most difficult changes we\u2019ve made in Meta\u2019s history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows major layoffs at Twitter, which cut about half its staff, and other tech firms.<\/p>\n<p>More soon\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; overflow:hidden;margin:20px auto; width:100%; min-height:280px;\">\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Facebook content moderator has sued the social media giant&#8217;s parent company Meta Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it will cut 13% of its workforce. In total 11,000 employees are to be laid off from its worldwide headcount of 87,000 people. In a statement,\u00a0Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1561,6053,27433,5882,7246],"class_list":["post-1247205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-cut","tag-facebook","tag-meta","tag-owner","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}