New Delhi, May 18 -- Employees at Meta's offices in the United States (US) were met with an unusual sight on Tuesday as pamphlets criticising the company's workplace monitoring software appeared across meeting rooms, vending machines and even bathroom walls.

The flyers carried the same message: "Don't want to work at the Employee Data Extraction Factory?" According to Reuters, the pamphlets directed workers to an online petition demanding that Facebook's owner discontinue the software programme. The material also referenced the National Labor Relations Act, which protects employees organising for improved workplace conditions.

The protest centres around Meta's internal monitoring tool called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), which ...