Lawsuit against Meta to proceed in Kenya

A Kenyan court has ruled that Facebook's parent company Meta could be sued in the East African nation over the dismissal of dozens of content moderators by a contractor. The moderators last year sued Meta and two local contractors, saying they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, for organising a union. Fin24 reports that they said they were then blacklisted from applying for the same roles at another firm, Majorel, after Facebook changed contractors. Out-of-court settlement talks collapsed in October last year. The decision by the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling by a Kenyan Labour Court in April 2023 that Meta could face trial over the moderators' dismissals, which Meta appealed. ‘The upshot of our above findings is that the appellants' (Meta's) appeals ... are devoid of merit and both appeals are hereby dismissed with costs to the respondents,’ the three judges at the Court of Appeal said in their ruling.

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