In Kenya, the Meta group is facing a judicial offensive by content moderators. Three complaints target Meta and the California-based company Sama

Convicted at the end of May in Europe over data protection, the Meta group is under attack on another front in Kenya: the work of content moderators, shadow employees responsible for removing violent and hateful posts from Facebook. Three complaints target Meta and the California-based company Sama, to which the group that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram outsourced the moderation of content on its social network for sub-Saharan Africa between 2019

Two complaints were filed by content moderators employed by Sama in Nairobi. A first complaint was filed in May 2022 at the Employment and Industrial Relations Tribunal by a South African, Daniel Motaung