Lawyers probe 'dire' conditions for Meta content moderators in GhanaLawyers are probing "dire"in what could turn into the latest dispute over the social media giant's labour practices in Africa. The probe fo...
02 May, 2025, 11.05 PM IST
Spanish court rules Facebook moderator suffered work-related mental traumaA Spanish court has ruled that the mental health of a former Facebook moderator was damaged by his work reviewing graphic content such as b...
19 Jan, 2024, 08.26 AM IST
Mediation collapses between Meta and Kenyan moderators, rights group saysThe 184 moderators sued Meta and two subcontractors earlier this year after they say they lost their jobs with one of the subcontractors, S...
16 Oct, 2023, 07.37 PM IST
Mental trauma: African content moderators push Big Tech on rightsThe first union for content moderators in Africa has been established in Nairobi with the aim of improving working conditions and holding B...
16 Oct, 2023, 11.14 AM IST
Meta faces Kenya legal offensive by content moderatorsSlapped with massive fines in the European Union for violating data protection laws, Meta is fighting on another front in Kenya, where cont...
15 Jun, 2023, 10.59 AM IST
'No job for humans': the harrowing work of content moderators in KenyaThe legal offensive against Meta began with a lawsuit filed in May 2022 in a Nairobi court by a former content moderator, Daniel Motaung, c...
15 Jun, 2023, 10.50 AM IST
Respect African content moderators, says Facebook whistleblowerGlobally, thousands of moderators review posts containing graphic content - keeping harmful material from appearing on users' feeds. Many w...
12 May, 2023, 12.57 AM IST
Meta can be sued in Kenya over alleged unlawful redundancies, rules courtJudge Matthews Nduma issued an interim injunction against Meta and Sama preventing them from terminating the moderators' contracts, pending...
20 Apr, 2023, 07.19 PM IST
Kenyan judge temporarily blocks mass layoff of Facebook moderatorsJudge Matthews Nduma issued an interim injunction against Meta and the Kenya-based outsourcing firm Sama, preventing them from terminating ...
22 Mar, 2023, 09.43 AM IST
Content moderators sue Meta over alleged 'union-busting' in KenyaThe 43 applicants say they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, for organising a union.
21 Mar, 2023, 10.10 AM IST
Content moderators sue Meta over alleged 'union-busting' in KenyaThe 43 applicants say they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, for organising a union. T...
20 Mar, 2023, 09.25 PM IST
Activists file case against Meta over Tigray hate postsThe case filed in the High Court claims that Meta responded inadequately to hateful content on its platform, especially in relation to the ...
14 Dec, 2022, 03.13 PM IST
Lawsuit accuses Meta of enabling hateful posts in Ethiopia conflictThe lawsuit, filed in Kenya on Tuesday, was brought by two Ethiopian researchers and Kenyan rights group the Katiba Institute.
14 Dec, 2022, 10.45 AM IST
Former TikTok content reviewers file lawsuit over California labor law violationTwo former TikTok content moderators filed a lawsuit against TikTok and ByteDance as the companies failed to provide appropriate and adequa...
25 Mar, 2022, 10.34 PM IST
Tech's liability shield under fire: 26 words and what's at stakeThe measure -- just 26 words known as Section 230 -- now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Ac...
04 Mar, 2021, 12.41 AM IST
Facebook to pay moderators $52 mn for work traumaFacebook has agreed to pay $52 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in the United States which alleged that content moderators contract...
14 May, 2020, 07.04 AM IST
Over 3,000 US employees file class action suit against CognizantThis is a fallout of Cognizant’s announcement in October that about 6,000 of its employees in the content moderation business for Facebook ...
16 Mar, 2020, 11.12 AM IST