said Thursday that it’s laying off an undisclosed number of employees in its risk organization amid a company shift to use artificial intelligence to automate its compliance review process.
Michel Protti, Meta’s chief privacy and compliance officer for product, disclosed the layoffs on Wednesday to members of the company’s risk organization, according to a report by Business Insider.
Meta’s risk organization is tasked with assessing and documenting various product and feature risks and ensure that the company is complying with regulators worldwide. The organization was established after the company formerly known as Facebook was slapped with a $5 billion fine by the Federal Trade Commission as part of a settlement that also required that the social media giant restructure its approach to privacy.
The job reductions come amid broader organizational restructurings at Meta, including its decision on Wednesday to lay off about 600 employees who work in the company’s Superintelligence Labs AI unit. The cuts, however, did not impact Meta’s top-tier TBD Labs division within the AI unit.
“Through our product risk and compliance team, we’ve built one of the most sophisticated compliance programs in the industry to help us evaluate our products and features,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. “We routinely make organizational changes and are restructuring our team to reflect the maturity of our program and innovate faster while maintaining high compliance standards.”
