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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Facebook sued in Kenya over work conditions for moderators

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A man who says he is “destroyed” after working as a content moderator for Facebook has filed a lawsuit accusing the company of human trafficking Africans to work in an exploitative and unsafe facility in Kenya.

The case against Meta Platforms, the Menlo Park, Calif. company that owns Facebook, and Sama, a San Francisco subcontractor, was lodged Tuesday with a court in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

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