Meta cuts 700 jobs as zuckerberg buries the metaverse

Meta is laying off roughly 700 employees across Facebook and Reality Labs, and this time the company isn't even pretending the cuts are about efficiency. This is a controlled demolition of one era to fund another. The metaverse is dying. AI is getting the inheritance.

A pattern zuckerberg stopped hiding

Back in March, Meta quietly trimmed about 10% of Reality Labs — somewhere around 1,500 people — framing it as a strategic pivot. Now comes another wave, hitting Facebook, global operations, recruiting, sales, and what's left of the VR division. The affected employees are being offered internal transfers, some of which come with a relocation requirement. That's the kind of offer that sounds generous until you realize it isn't really optional.

Meta's spokesperson delivered the standard corporate sedative: