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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Caroline Kimeu

‘A watershed’: Meta ordered to offer mental health care to moderators in Kenya

Content moderators demonstrate at the offices of Sama in Nairobi last month.
Content moderators demonstrate at the offices of Sama in Nairobi last month. Photograph: Daniel Irungu/EPA

Meta has been ordered to “provide proper medical, psychiatric and psychological care” to a group of moderators in Nairobi following a ruling in a Kenyan employment court that heard harrowing testimony about the distressing nature of their work.

The instruction by judge Byram Ongaya formed part of a broader interim ruling that saw the moderators’ jobs restored after they sued Meta in March for what they termed a “sham” mass redundancy.

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