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Kenya Facebook redundancies case

Meta uses artificial intelligence to help spot and remove graphic Facebook content, but it also still relies on thousands of human workers to spot problematic posts.Several moderators have spoken out about the traumatising nature of the content they worked to filter out of people’s feeds, for which they were paid about $630 per month, Talks aimed at reaching a settlement in a long-running case brought by 184 Nairobi-based Facebook moderators against the platform’s owner Meta have broken down. The moderators, who filtered out violent and graphic content, allege they were laid off for organising a union. In total 260 moderators were laid off when Sama ended its contract with Meta. The 184 moderators bringing the legal action allege that they were laid off in retaliation for complaints about working conditions and attempts to form a union. Do you think that Justice has been interfered with ?

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