Meta Barred From Sacking Facebook Moderators In Kenya 
Meta Barred From Sacking Facebook Moderators In Kenya 

Meta Barred From Sacking Facebook Moderators In Kenya 

Prashant Trivedi

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A court in Kenya's capital Nairobi has barred Meta, Facebook's parent company, from laying off its content moderators pending the determination of a lawsuit that is challenging their planned dismissal. <br />The labour court also barred Meta and its outsourcing firm, Sama, from hiring other moderators to replace the sacked ones. <br />The lawsuit was filed by 43 Facebook moderators in Kenya, hired by Sama on behalf of Meta. They allege that the redundancy exercise being undertaken was unlawful.