Our Kenyan counsel Mercy Mutemi told the Nairobi court that Meta and Sama were: “buying time and not being genuine.”
Out of 18 positions, workers elected 14 people from the ver.di trade union to the Essen Facebook content moderation office ‘works council’.
Imagine viewing more than 250 videos of graphic violence each hour, for eight hours a day. That is the daily life of a TikTok content moderator.
Through an outsourcing proxy company, Facebook is trampling on the freedom of speech and human rights of their key safety workers.
More than 300 moderators have presented a manifesto to the German parliament calling for an end to their exploitation.
That means Facebook is legally responsible for these workers.
Over 150 social media key safety workers voted to form the first content moderators’ union in Africa. We are so proud to have been with them.
Until then, the brave 184 content moderators bringing the case remain protected from Facebook’s mass lay offs by a court order blocking them.
