A Court has ruled that Facebook’s parent company Meta could be sued over the dismissal of dozens of content moderators by a contractor.
Last year the content moderators 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.
They said they were then blacklisted from applying for the same roles at another firm, Majorel, after Facebook changed contractors.
Friday’s 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.
