Sacked Facebook moderators sue Meta in Kenya, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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by Samuel Pordengerg Mar 21, 2023 News
Sacked Facebook moderators sue Meta in Kenya, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity
<p>Cut jobs, shareholder tells Facebook parent Meta</p>
Cut jobs, shareholder tells Facebook parent Meta
A total of 43 Facebook content moderators in Kenya who were sacked in January are to sue the social media behemoth's parent Meta for unfair dismissal, according to a statement published on their behalf Monday.

Meta is trying to cut its workforce by 25% within six months as the tech sector is going through a rough patch with Facebook.

In January of this year, 260 content moderation workers at Facebook's hub in Kenya were told that they would be made redundant by the outsourcing firm that has been running the office since 2019.

"Overnight, these moderators doing critical safety work for East and South Africa lost their jobs. "In the biggest legal challenge yet to Meta's African operations, 43 moderators at Facebook's Nairobi moderation hub are suing the social media firm and its outsourcers for sacking the entire workforce -- and for blacklisting all the laid-off workers." Asked by AFP for a response, Meta did not immediately comment. Last December, a Kenyan NGO and two Ethiopian citizens filed a lawsuit in Kenya against Meta, accusing the platform of not doing enough to combat online hate speech, and urged the creation of a $1.6 billion fund to compensate victims. The action claimed that Meta promoted speech that led to ethnic violence and killings in Ethiopia by using an algorithm liable to prioritise or recommend hateful and violent content on Facebook.

The Reels Play bonus program will no longer be offered. Content creators on both Facebook andInstagram will be affected by the move.


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