Meta faces Kenya legal offensive by content moderators

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Two of the cases were filed by content moderators employed by Sama -- formerly known as Samasource -- in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

That case ended with a court settlement in 2020, when Facebook agreed to pay content reviewers $52 million as compensation for the trauma resulting from constant exposure to graphic, violent imagery.

Lawyers for Meta told the Nairobi labour court the company could not be tried in a country where it did not directly employ people. Cori Crider, director of UK-based legal activist firm Foxglove, which is supporting the complaints filed in Kenya, said “the main objective in all of these is to reform the way the work is done”.

 

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