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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth UK technology editor

UNCOVERED: Kenyan outsourcing company for meta sacks more than 1 000 workers - Caught on Camera

Mark Zuckerberg wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses
Mark Zuckerberg wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

More than 1,000 low-paid workers in Kenya have been abruptly sacked by an outsourcing company contracted by Meta, in what activists said was a shocking move exposing the precariousness of tech jobs in the global south.

Sama, a company based in Nairobi to which Meta outsourced content moderation and AI training work, announced on Thursday that the workers were being laid off after Meta terminated a contract.

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