Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed suit on Monday, July 13, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Meta used "a constellation of internal artificial-intelligence systems" to score, rank and select employees for its approximately 10% reduction in force in May 2026. The complaint says the scoring drew on inputs including performance ratings, calibration scores, productivity and output metrics, "AI-native" ratings and AI-token consumption — metrics the plaintiffs argue cannot be accumulated by workers on protected medical or family leave — and that Meta neither neutralized those inputs nor excluded affected employees from selection. The suit cites the ADA, FMLA, Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and Title VII, and seeks a preliminary injunction blocking the separations. A Meta spokesperson said the claims "lack merit" and that workforce decisions "were and are made by people, not AI."