Mark Zuckerberg has cut 25,000 jobs at Meta since 2022. Here’s what that says about his leadership

When Meta’s CEO announced the company’s first round of 11,000 layoffs in 2022, a red-eyed Mark Zuckerberg was conciliatory: “It was one of the hardest calls that I’ve had to make in the 18 years of running the company,” he said at the time.

Including this first mass layoff, the company has dismissed a total of around 25,000 people across several divisions since 2022, with the most recent being a reported 700 layoffs affecting its Reality Labs unit this week. Following the 11,000 laid off in 2022...