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Metamates freak out at becoming training data

"How do we opt out?" Inside Meta's employee tracking backlash.

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Alex Heath
Apr 22, 2026
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This incredibly late, truncated issue brought to you by United’s (lack of) WiFi. I’m in Washington, D.C. for a couple of days with the Alltogether crew before heading back to the West Coast. I’ll have a couple more issues this week.


Meta’s rollout of a mandatory tool that records employee keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen content to train AI sparked such intense internal backlash that an internal follow-up memo was shared Tuesday, acknowledging “there has been a lot of concern about this,” according to messages I’ve seen.

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