Sama said it would “let go” about 3% of its staff, mostly from the Nairobi office, where they remove posts flagged for review if they break the platform’s rules, and focus on its computer-vision work. Meta has denied harmful posts will escape review, after the contractor running Facebook’s main moderation hub for east Africa, Sama, announced it would stop providing content-review services to social-media platforms. In May, a former moderator who claims the work harmed his mental health sued both firms. How should the content moderators be compensated ?

