200 may lose jobs as Meta shuts down East African hub

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has shut down its East African content moderation hub, a development that may cost 200 staff their jobs.

Meta had in 2017 hired Sama, a 3rd party content moderation firm in Nairobi, Kenya, to assist with labelling data and training its artificial intelligence.

Sama later started moderating some of the graphic and harmful material on Meta’s platforms, including beheadings and child abuse.

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