PANews reported on February 8 that according to Jinshi, an internal memo showed that Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) plans to carry out expected layoffs across the company next week, while accelerating the recruitment of machine learning engineers. The memo shows that layoff notices in most countries (including the United States) will be issued starting at 5 a.m. local time on Monday. Employees in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands are not affected by layoffs "due to local regulations", while employees in more than a dozen other countries in Europe, Asia and Africa will receive notices between February 11 and February 18.