Meta’s Instagram is finally taking steps to minimize the unadulterated content sent to teens via its direct messaging system. Users under 18 will automatically see blurred images that contain nudity, Instagram announced Thursday just ahead of the upcoming presidential elections.

The company also encourages adult users to turn on the feature, reported The Hill. The initiative is intended to protect users from potential “sextortion” scammers, according to Instagram’s blog post. But still, the public doesn’t know how far of a reach this will extend, particularly in the political realm.

The update comes after Meta and other social media platforms faced pressure to put restrictions in place to protect teens who frequently used the platforms.

Sextortion scams entail persuading a person into sending explicit photos and then threatening them to make the photos public unless payment or favors are granted. It ranks among the highest concerns for parents on social media. Big Tech hopes to clamp down unironically right in time for the presidential elections.

With the new update, nude photos will be blurred under a warning screen that states that the “photo may contain nudity” before the user decides to view it or not. According to The Hill, Instagram will also send users messages telling them “don’t feel pressured to respond,” with the option to block and/or report. Any user who tries to forward an explicit image will receive a message that urges them to reconsider.

After the Senate panel hearing in January over the risks these platforms pose to teens, Big Tech is feeling the pressure to crack down. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with the CEOs of Discord, Snap, X and TikTok, faced scrutiny from the panel and will probably amp up on such initiatives and possibly censorship.

The Hill reported that the House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday focusing on a group of bills aimed at protecting children online. The hearing will also include the unveiling of the comprehensive data privacy bill. Whether these bills overlap in some form with suppression or censorship is unknown, but it wouldn’t be too surprising.

With bipartisan support, the Senate Commerce Committee is expected to push forward these bills, reported The Hill. However, none have yet to be called to a floor vote.

The concern comes as support for Israel continues to plummet while establishment politicians scramble for the foreign lobby’s defense. There is also the upcoming presidential election. These bills may springboard a political defensive as Meta and Twitter did in the past with the Hunter Biden laptop story.

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If Republicans keep an eye on America rather than Israel, they could spot the holes in these bills and also prep for the much-expected counteroffensive Democrat-backed platforms, such as Meta, will take.

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Big Tech is at it again, setting its sights on the 2024 presidential election. Meta’s Facebook posted a job listing on LinkedIn for “voting rights & elections,” granting a reasonable suspicion after social media platforms censored the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 election.

The job description details a position under Meta’s Civil Rights Team with an expected “expertise in voting rights, elections, and democracy issues.”

The scope of the job will include research, analysis and communication strategy overseen by Roy Austin, VP and Deputy GC, CR, and Legal Manager, according to the original post on LinkedIn.

The listing goes on to detail Meta’s Civil Rights Team. It will act to “intersect with company policies and practices” to “address threats to voting rights, elections, and civic participation, primarily in the United States.” This would entail “research and analysis … of voting laws and civic participation, impacts of voter suppression and intimidation, particularly on historically marginalized communities, and current threats to elections and well-functioning democracy …”

Meta lists some examples of job duties, including:

• Summarizing and communicating developments in voting rights and elections, and risks to voters and elections in the US 24 context.
• Prepare memos and analyses as requested and agreed upon.
• Collaborate with the Civil Rights Team to instill civil rights best practices on voting and elections within the company.
• Contribute relevant voting rights and elections analysis, research, and content to documents and other resources.
• Develop and support voting and elections priorities and strategic projects.
• Support engagements with other voting and elections experts.

What is more intriguing is the minimum qualifications. Meta requires a JD for this software development position. That could be due to job listing regulations, but reading its mission statement may provide alternative insight.

At Meta, we have a responsibility to everyone who uses our services to amplify the good and mitigate the harm – to make sure that people are safe on Meta. Technology plays an enormous role in nearly every part of our lives, and it is important that it be used to overcome the historic discrimination which so many underrepresented groups have faced. Meta’s products and services serve communities all around the world. The question is no longer whether technology and social media play a role in elections and the civic ecosystem, but what forms they will take. The Civil Rights Team recognizes the potential to help increase voter participation and civic engagement, and to strengthen the values of equity, dignity, and safety as core to free expression and free and fair self-government. We also understand the elevated risk environment and the need to counter threats to voting and elections, particularly when targeted at systematically marginalized communities.

The move by Meta’s Facebook comes on the heels of another Big Tech announcement. According to The Jerusalem Post, X CTO Elon Musk will be visiting Auschwitz to lead a panel on antisemitism and the Holocaust. It will be hosted by the staunch Zionist Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire.

The Post stated that this discussion will be to “combat rising antisemitism in light of the war in Gaza.” Unironically, months before, during the #BanTheADL campaign, America First journalists reported on Shapiro being the springboard for Musk to censor anti-Zionists.

Elon Musk, the richest man alive, has likely succumbed to the regime. The X platform will then likely adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which includes anti-Zionism. This will render any pro-Palestine talk off-limits.

At this point, finding a social media platform that doesn’t hinder free speech behind a political agenda is almost impossible. The Christian platform, Gab, is the only one to remain.

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With Facebook taking an active approach to political chatter, X was seemingly the only platform left. But now, it will most likely resemble the latter in censorship and deboosting.

The lead-up to the 2024 presidential elections appears to be already saturated in the corporate agenda—ill-representative of the populace’s voice. This will likely be how the future of politics manifests as free speech continues to be in decline.

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Facebook parent company Meta is set to announce large-scale layoffs that will affect thousands of employees this week, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The cuts could end up being the largest tech workforce reduction conducted this year, surpassing the recent Twitter layoffs that will reportedly affect at least half of its workforce. Meta reported more than 87,000 employees at the end of September.

While smaller on a percentage basis than the Twitter layoffs, the number of axed employees could account for one of the largest labor reductions across all industries this year. For Meta, which previously went by Facebook, the move will account for the biggest round of layoffs in the company’s 18-year-history.

A spokesman for Meta declined the outlet’s request for comment, referring to Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s recent statement that the company would “focus our investments on a small number of high priority growth areas.”

“So that means some teams will grow meaningfully, but most other teams will stay flat or shrink over the next year,” he said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Oct. 26. “In aggregate, we expect to end 2023 as either roughly the same size, or even a slightly smaller organization than we are today.”

The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Meta was looking to reduce expenses by 10 percent over the next year, in part through staff reductions. “Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here,” Zuckerberg told employees at a companywide meeting in June.

Like many companies in the tech space, Meta added a sizable number of employees in 2020 and 2021 as online became more common due to the pandemic. The social media giant added more than 27,000 employees in 2020 and 2021, and added an additional 15,344 in the first nine months of this year.

At the time of the planned layoffs, Meta’s stock price is down 70 percent on the year. The company has seen its growth share in the social media space decline in face of increased competition from Apple and TikTok, while the company itself has blamed deteriorating macroeconomic trends.

On the financial side, Meta’s spending has significantly increased over the past few quarters, causing its cash flow to decline by 98 percent in the previous quarter. Much of the company’s spending has been put towards the “metaverse” and Zuckerberg’s commitment to Reality Labs, a division of the company responsible for both virtual and augmented reality headsets as well as the creation of the metaverse.

Zuckerberg has described the metaverse as “a constellation of interlocking virtual worlds in which people will eventually work, play, live and shop.”

Investors appear to be spooked by the company’s heavy focus on the metaverse. Last month, investment firm Altimeter Capital said in an open letter to Zuckerberg that Meta should slash staff and cool its metaverse ambitions, the report stated.

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Executives from Twitter and Facebook, including the recently fired former head of Twitter’s trust & safety Vijaya Gadde, held regular meetings with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to discuss censorship and content moderation. Among the topics DHS wanted to suppress included the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, COVID-19/vaccination, questioning the 2020 election and “racial justice,” according to leaked documents.

Big tech’s relationship with the federal government became widely apparent when Biden’s DHS announced the formation of its “disinformation governance board” earlier this year.

While the plan was “paused” after massive backlash, though prior to 2020, it was reported that DHS met with executives from Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, and other platforms in order to coordinate “content moderation” operations. Big tech frequently coordinated with the federal government in order to determine how to combat “misinformation” on major platforms.

The latest bombshell report concerns documents revealed through Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmidt’s lawsuit against the Biden Administration that alleges collusion between big tech and the federal government. The documents, which were obtained through appended meeting minutes, were then leaked to The Intercept.

“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, wrote in a text message to a current DHS director, Jen Easterly, this past February.

In a March meeting of the DHS Cybersecurity Advisory Committee — that includes executives from JP Morgan Chase and Twitter — Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned big tech of “subversive” information that could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow first brought executives up to speed on the scope of the bureau’s counter-foreign influence (FTIF) operation, which was expanded to an 80-person unit within the FBI’s counter-intelligence division in 2016. The program was expanded in order to investigate thoroughly debunked and fabricated collusion between then-candidate Trump and the Russian government.

Dehmlow told tech executives that, “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable; we need to early educate the populace; and that today, critical thinking seems to be a problem currently.”

In June, the same DHS subcommittee drafted a report to the CISA director calling for an expansive role for the agency in shaping the “information ecosystem.”

The report called on the agency to closely monitor “social media platforms of all sizes, mainstream media, cable news, hyper partisan media, talk radio and other online resources,” the Intercept reported. They argued that the agency needed to take steps to halt the “spread of false and misleading information,” with a focus on information that undermines “key democratic institutions, such as the courts, or by other sectors such as the financial system, or public health measures.”

The report also revealed that government officials have access to a “formalized process” to directly flag content on Facebook and Twitter. Officials are able to throttle or suppress content through a Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to access.

“At the time of writing, the ‘content request system’ at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live,” reported The Intercept. Both Meta, the parent company of Facebook, and DHS declined to comment, as did the FBI.

According to a draft copy of the DHS’s 2022 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review obtained by The Intercept, the department increasingly views tracking and censoring “misinformation” as one of its top priorities. While “counterterrorism remains the first and most important mission of the Department,” it notes, the agency’s “work on these missions is evolving and dynamic” and must now adapt to terror threats “exacerbated by misinformation and disinformation spread online” including by “domestic violent extremists.”

In order to meet their objectives, the draft review calls for DHS to “leverage advanced data analytics technology and hire and train skilled specialists to better understand how threat actors use online platforms to introduce and spread toxic narratives intended to inspire or incite violence, as well as work with NGOs and other parts of civil society to build resilience to the impacts of false information.”

The broad definitions of “threat actors,” which often include American citizens under the government’s definition, and “critical infrastructure,” which can be classified as distrust in the government, has raised alarm bells among those who value civil liberties. According to the report, DHS considers criticism of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, lack of faith in the election process and COVID vaccine skepticism as topics “threat actors” can use to “undermine critical infrastructure.”

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Facebook (now known as Meta) was fined nearly $25 million by the state of Washington on Wednesday for repeatedly violating the state’s campaign finance laws. King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North issued the maximum possible fine to Mark Zuckerberg’s company after uncovering several violations of Washington’s political disclosure law. Between 2019 and 2021, the social media giant committed 822 violations.

Each violation of the law is punishable by a fine of up to $10,000. However, since North found that Meta intentionally violated the law, the fines can be tripled.

North ultimately fined Meta $30,000 for each of the 822 campaign finance violations. According to Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, the fine is the largest sum ever imposed for such violations in the state.

Ferguson, who brought the case against Meta, requested the maximum fine since his office had previously sued the company for the same violations in 2018.

“I have one word for Facebook’s conduct in this case — arrogance,” Ferguson said Wednesday. “It intentionally disregarded Washington’s election transparency laws. But that wasn’t enough. Facebook argued in court that those laws should be declared unconstitutional. That’s breathtaking. Where’s the corporate responsibility?”

“I urge Facebook to come to its senses, accept responsibility, apologize for its conduct and comply with the law,” Ferguson said. “If Facebook refuses to do this, we will beat them again in court.”

Ferguson is also requesting that its attorneys’ fees be tripled, which would amount to an additional $10.5 million. North is set to rule on that request on a later date.

Washington’s political disclosure law requires ad sellers such as Meta to disclose the names and addresses of political ad buyers, the targets of such ads and the total number of views of each ad, the Seatle Times reported. Ad sellers are required to report the information to anyone that asks for it.

After Ferguson’s office sued Facebook in 2018, the company said it would stop selling ads in the state rather than comply with the law. Google also chose to take similar action. Neither company stopped selling ads, however, and both were fined a total of $200,000.

Ferguson later sued Facebook again in 2020. The company, which decided to rebrand as “Meta” one year later, had previously tried to get the case dismissed by arguing that the transparency law is unconstitutional. Attorneys for Meta argued that the requirement “unduly burdens political speech” and is “virtually impossible to fully comply with.”

Judge North ultimately ruled that the company’s violations were intentional, citing the 2018 case. He further stated that the company has plenty of experience with campaign finance law and noted its “lack of good faith and failure to acknowledge and take responsibility for its violations.”

“Meta not only continued to solicit Washington Political Advertisements, but Meta was aware that its announced ‘ban’ would not, and did not, stop all such advertising from continuing to be displayed on its platform,” North wrote.

While the fine may amount to the largest sum every imposed for a campaign finance violation in Washington, the fee is hardly a drop in the bucket for Meta. Despite recent stock turbulence, the social media giant has reported revenue of nearly $28 billion in the third quarter of this year, and a quarterly profit of $4.39 billion.

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Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of President Biden’s troubled son Hunter, strongly believes that the FBI’s handling of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop swayed the election. Bobulinski himself provided the FBI with first-hand knowledge of Hunter Biden’s business dealing involving his uncle, James Biden, the Chinese government party and other foreign interests, and reportedly President Biden himself. Bobulinski cited the narrow margins by which Trump was defeated in key swing states, saying that he was all but certain Trump would have been elected had the allegations not been suppressed.

Bobulinski, a Navy veteran and the former head of SinoHawk Holdings, which he described as a partnership between the CEFC Chinese energy conglomerate and two Biden family members, discussed recent comments made by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg during an interview with Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan earlier this year that FBI officials told Facebook executives that “a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election.” The bureau then informed the company that “there’s about to be some kind of dump — that’s similar to that, so just be vigilant.”

Facebook and Twitter infamously censored the New York Post article on Hunter Biden’s laptop from being shared on its platforms. The story was blocked at the URL level, hiding the story from millions of potential voters.

“He used the word ‘dump,’ right? He said the FBI beat us [to] that a dump might be coming. They didn’t say there might be a story. The dump the FBI was well aware there was a laptop that well aware there were hundreds of thousands of emails and text messages and stuff like that,” Bobulinski told Carlson.

“The New York Post published a couple of emails trying to make the American public aware of it. But Mark Zuckerberg just casually said, oh, yeah, the FBI came to us and warned us of a dump,” he pointed out, adding that the tech giants “throttled” the story’s reach.

Pointing to both the FBI’s actions and big tech’s compliance, the former Biden business partner argued that this coordination had massive implications on the results of the 2020 election. Bobulinski went on to cite the narrow margins by which President Trump lost Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona.

“Twenty-one-thousand-five-hundred votes,” he said, citing Joe Biden’s net margin in those three swing states.

“The difference between President Trump and Joe Biden was 43,000 votes. If half of those people, 21,500 had voted for President Trump instead of Biden, President Trump would still be in the White House,” Bobulinski told Carlson.

The former SinoHawk Holdings chief said he was not laying out the statistics to show support for Trump or to oppose him, but that he is simply laying out the “facts.”

“So that election was decided by 21,500 votes – in the backdrop of a story that is the most suppressed story in the history of the US presidential elections,” he argued. Bobulinski concluded that the FBI’s role in suppressing the story affected the outcome in 2020.

“You can call it rigged. You can call it stolen. You could call it suppressed. The American people can call it whatever they want. But the fact pattern is the FBI alone altered history in that election,” Bobulinski said.

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NYPD gun confiscators posed for pictures after seizing toy guns from the streets of New York City, as real violent crime continues to skyrocket in the deep blue metropolis. The gun grabbers were widely mocked after the 72nd Precinct posted the photos to Facebook, as social media users pointed out the bright orange tips and see-through plastic magazines the toy guns were outfitted with.

In a post made recently to the city’s 72nd Precinct’s Facebook page, NYPD gun cops who patrol the streets of Brooklyn posed for pictures as they celebrated the seizure of “multiple air rifles,” which are also known as toys. In addition to the orange-tipped, plastic toy guns, officers managed to scrounge up a single loaded handgun to pose with for the photo.

“Your midnight shift team, Officer Cheeme, Officer Rashevskiy, Lieutenant Schack along with our midnight shift officers removed a loaded gun & multiple air rifles from the streets of Sunset Park, Brooklyn” the post from the 72nd Precinct reads. “Great teamwork by everyone involved.”

Facebook users from New York City and around the country descended on the post to mock the efforts of NYPD’s gun confiscators, and Facebook “laugh reacts” outnumber the “likes” the post received by thousands.

“Your wives’ boyfriends must be so proud,” one user commented below the photograph.

While the NYPD is seizing toy guns, crime is skyrocketing all over America’s biggest city, long a hub for third-world migrants and others at odds with mainstream American culture and behaviors.

The city’s massive spike in crime has been directly attributed to the left-wing policies of its Democrat government, even by Democrats within that very government, who have sought to shift blame towards their Democrat predecessors and colleagues.

According to NYPD crime stats, the city experienced a spike in nearly every single criminal category over the summer of 2022, continuing on with a trend experienced in recent years, as no bail, no punishment policies have put criminals above the law-abiding citizens of New York City. As of the final week of August, the rate of violent crime across all categories is up more than 35% in the city from 2021, when it had already eclipsed record highs.

The city’s law-abiding population, which has long been disarmed and is increasingly living under siege, had received some relief early this year when the Supreme Court struck down New York City’s anti-2A laws that went out of their way to stop citizens from obtaining carry permits.

After the ruling, the city rolled out a new set of equally draconian guidelines blatantly designed to stop citizens from obtaining carry permits. Under the new rules, citizens must now present police with their entire social media account history from the last three years and conduct an in-person interview among other things before receiving a license to carry their own gun.

Though New York makes the average citizen jump through endless hoops to carry a gun, amazingly, the city has long abandoned its stop-and-frisk policing tactics under the guise of far-left Democrats, effectively giving criminals a license to carry at all times.

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Recent research has revealed that social media platforms Tiktok, Instagram, and Meta, can pry on users’ personal information when it is entered into the in-app browser.

Felix Krause, a software engineer, and security researcher looked into the coding built into Tiktok, the Chinese-produced app’s infrastructure, which led to his shocking revelation.

Users who click on links on Tiktok are led to a native in-app browser produced by Tiktok, and not default browsers like Safari or Google Chrome.

The JavaScript code in Tiktok’s in-app browser can allow the company to monitor every keystroke. This means the social media company could access every action taken on the screen, even passwords or credit card information.

Krause explained that while Tiktok allegedly does not have the feature enabled at this moment, the infrastructure is in place. “Installing a keylogger is obviously a huge thing… according to TikTok it’s disabled at the moment. The problem is they do have the infrastructure and the systems in place to be able to track all these keystrokes… that on its own is a huge problem.”

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A Tiktok spokesman claimed the code is in place for “debugging, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring” purposes. “We do not collect keystroke or text inputs through this code, which is solely used for debugging, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.”

After looking into the coding of Instagram, Krause came to a similar conclusion. According to Krause, Instagram’s infrastructure is also able to log phone taps and clicks on images.

When Instagram users click on links in the app they are brought to an in-app browser that could track sensitive and personal information entered by the user. Meta operates in a likewise manner, with their in-app browser.

A Meta spokesperson refuted that any private information was being harvested: “We use in-app browsers to enable safe, convenient, and reliable experiences, such as making sure auto-fill populates properly or preventing people from being redirected to malicious sites. Adding any of these kinds of features requires additional code. We have carefully designed these experiences to respect users’ privacy choices, including how data may be used for ads.”

Stay tuned to National File for any updates.

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Popular influencer Andrew Tate has been banned by Facebook and Instagram for violating its policy pertaining to “dangerous individuals,” parent company Meta has confirmed. Tate, a former kickboxer and now popular streamer known for hard-hitting takes on post modernism, has become one of the internet’s most watched personalities over the last year. Tate’s banning has been celebrated by progressives, who have labelled him a “misogynist” for his lifestyle and comments.

Tate, who is a citizen of both the U.S. and the U.K., first rose to prominence after appearing on the reality series Big Brother. He also enjoyed a lengthy kickboxing career before transitioning into podcasting and streaming.

Over the last year, Tate has appeared on a number of the world’s top podcasts and streams. Clips of Tate have become wildly popular on TikTok and YouTube. On TikTok alone, videos with a hashtag using his name have been viewed over 13 billion times.

Despite the popularity, Andrew Tate does not personally have a TikTok account. He likely would not be welcome were he to change his mind, as a company spokesperson said: “Misogyny is a hateful ideology that is not tolerated on TikTok.”

“We’ve been removing violative videos and accounts for weeks, and we welcome the news that other platforms are also taking action against this individual,” the spokesperson added, according to Sky News.

A number of progressive groups have pressured social media platforms to ban Tate, arguing that his popularity on TikTok poses a threat to young boys. Responding to news of his ban, the women’s group Refuge said Meta had made the “right decision”.

“This is the kind of decisive action needed to tackle the online radicalization of young men towards a violently misogynistic world view,” the organization’s chief executive, Ruth Davison, said. The progressive group Hope Not Hate also praised the ban and thanked Meta for taking “swift” action.

Center for Countering Digital hate said banning Andrew Tate does not go far enough, however. “Tate encourages his followers to post his videos using their own accounts and link back to his website,” said the organization’s chief executive, Imran Ahmed. “Accounts are still pumping out clips of Tate as part of his Hustlers University pyramid scheme. YouTube is rife with videos doing this, and have made Google up millions in ad revenue,” he added.

“Meta should now go further and ensure that other people posting videos containing Mr. Tate are sanctioned for breaching their community standards on hate, and ban the posting of links to his website, which contains material designed to radicalize young men.”

Andrew Tate has yet to respond publicly to the bans.

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According to Business Insider, 60 different contractors working with Facebook were informed they were losing their contracts with the massive tech company because an algorithm randomly picked them to be a part of the company’s next round of layoffs.

Dozens of employees at Accenture, a company that provides contract workers for Facebook, reportedly lost their jobs due to this dystopian method.

According to the Business Insider report, laid-off employees would have their contracts ended as soon as September 2nd. These employees could reapply to work with Accenture clients like Facebook (Meta) but there was no guarantee they would be hired.

Insider reported the bad news of the layoffs was brought to the attention of the employees in a Tuesday video meeting and Wednesday follow-up phone call. One of the fired employees claimed the names of the individuals being fired and even the names of Accenture representatives leading the call were redacted or not introduced.

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The employee told Insider that Accenture representatives told the disgruntled employees that they were being terminated at random with the help of “an algorithm.”

Richard Keil, an Accenture spokesman, disputed the algorithm rumors. “We don’t use algorithms to randomly select people,” he told Insider. Keil also claimed that the Accenture representatives leading the conference call did in fact introduce their names.

The Accenture lay-offs come after Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook), said last month the company’s digital advertising revenue has not been as profitable as anticipated. Recent quarterly earnings reports for Meta have also been lower than expected.

“Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here,” Zuckerberg said in a company-wide meeting on June 30th.

Stay tuned to National File for any updates.

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