Kenyan outsourcing company for Meta sacks more than 1,000 workers

Social media corporation terminated Sama contract after allegations its staff viewed private scenes filmed by Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses More than 1,000 low-paid workers in Kenya have been abruptly sacked by an outsourcing company for the US social media corporation Meta, in what activists said was a “shocking” move exposing the precariousness of global south tech workers. Sama, a company based in Nairobi to which Meta outsourced content moderation and AI training work, announced on Thursday...

By Robert Booth UK technology editor