Meta's effort to harvest employee data sparked a massive internal revolt — Live Feedhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/meta-s-effort-to-harvest-employee-data-sparked-a-massive-internal-revoltContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. Meta AI Data Harvesting Experiment Triggers Employee Revolthttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/meta-s-effort-to-harvest-employee-data-sparked-a-massive-internal-revolthttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/meta-s-effort-to-harvest-employee-data-sparked-a-massive-internal-revolt#u66091Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:55:05 +0000Meta suspended an elite AI unit program after an internal revolt and data leak over employee tracking. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg previously attempted to replace thousands of workers with artificial intelligence agents, but the experiment collapsed. As part of a new reorganization within the Applied AI division, Meta is reversing course on its flat organizational structure and asking some employees to return to management roles. Workers described the initiative as super uncomfortable and compared the data harvesting effort to the Eye of Sauron.Why it mattersThe collapse of the art