Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | News | July 8, 2026
Terrible news, my friends. Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to keep his AI team together. Reuters reported that he admitted to Meta staff at a recent town hall that AI agents aren’t progressing as quickly as he had hoped, and that the “trajectory of the agnentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected.”
Staff morale at Meta is reportedly at an all-time low. The company is relying on other companies’ AI models to build their tools. Billions of dollars of investment — around $145 billion this year alone according to Futurism has barely been enough to keep them afloat. And earlier this year, they laid off thousands of workers. Call me old-fashioned but I feel like $145bn would employ a lot of people who could, you know, help you to build the torment nexus. That seems a smarter investment than following the whims of an emotionally stunted CEO who whines about masculinity to Joe Rogan and blew billions trying to make the Metaverse happen. Remember the Metaverse, kids?!
Zuckerberg has spent a good few years bragging about how AI would one day write most of Meta’s code and replace swaths of mid-level employees just trying to make a living. Putting aside the abject evilness of this claim, it’s currently proving to be untrue. It turns out that programmers and developers are pretty necessary in helping to maintain the internet, with or without the plagiarism machine’s involvement. Cutting 10% of your global workforce leaves everyone else feeling pretty dejected, but they’re still the ones who know that online living is dominated by human error and unpredictability.
And this doesn’t even get into the legal drama Meta finds itself constantly embroiled in. Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of public policy at Facebook, published a book last year, Careless People, highlighting Meta and Zuckerberg’s cruelty, ineptitude, and “lethal carelessness” around issues of ethics. Facebook is attempting to enforce a non-disparagement agreement, which means that every time Wynn-Williams tries to talk about her book, she can’t. She was scheduled to take part in a panel at the 2026 Hay Festival, but she remained silent for the entire event. This month, she filed suit against Meta, arguing that the arbitration ruling violated her First Amendment rights.
Meta is also facing an unprecedented $1.4 trillion in penalties from four U.S. states that have accused executives of deliberately designing its platform to be as addictive as possible to young people without care for their wellbeing. In March, a jury in New Mexico ruled that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual abuse and exploitation on its platforms. Meta was ordered to pay $375 million.
Mark Zuckerberg had one half-good idea in his life — one that tons of other people already had — and through it has become obscenely over-powered, to the point where he’s arguably one of the most corrosive and dangerous people alive. Meta is a cesspool of misinformation, hate speech, and the dead internet theory. His big NFT and Metaverse plans failed, so now he’s tripling down on a flailing AI programme and hoping enough people will buy the pervert glasses before those are struck down by inevitable lawsuits and legislative changes. The sooner the bubble pops, the better. If only he would face some actual repercussions in his rotten lifetime.
