Meta CTO strongly advocates for keyboard monitoring and firmly refuses to step down, sparking internal leaflet battles and a thousand-person protest

According to Beating Monitoring, as Mark Zuckerberg’s “human shield,” Meta’s Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth is aggressively pushing an AI transformation that has caused intense internal upheaval. While Meta carried out a lightning round layoff of 8,000 employees in a single day and used emails at 4 a.m. to purge senior engineers, the Model Capability Initiative monitoring tool was forcibly installed on the computers of employees who remained, recording keyboard inputs, mouse clicks, and screenshots. In anger, employees fanned out flyers across the office area titled “Employee Data Extraction Factory,” and jointly launched a protest petition with more than 1,500 people.

The core of the employees’ protest is that the company is forcing them to train the AI systems that will ultimately replace their roles using their own everyday activities. On internal forums, employees questioned how to disable the monitoring. Bosworth responded coldly, saying there is no option on company computers for anyone to opt out of data collection. His remarks triggered an intense barrage of emoji reactions—tears, shock, and rage—flooding internal chat.

Unlike the soothing line that Zuckerberg claimed—“used only for training, not for performance”—in an internal memo for the “Agent Transformation Accelerator,” Bosworth directly revealed Meta’s future vision. He explicitly pointed out that Meta’s vision is for future work to be carried out primarily by AI agents, while human roles would be to guide, review, and assist in improving them.

At the all-hands meeting at the end of April, Zuckerberg had strongly defended the Model Capability Initiative, saying Meta employees’ average intelligence is far beyond that of ordinary outsourced personnel, and that the day-to-day operational trails of elite engineers are extremely scarce training material. However, after the massive single-day layoffs on May 20, with the high-pressure of Stack Ranking and pressure from mortgages and H1B visas, senior engineers realized that high performance could no longer buy them security. They not only became sacrifices to boost stock prices, but were also drained of the last drop of their data value before leaving.