Kenyan outsourcing company for Meta sacks more than 1,000 workers

Social media corporation terminated Sama contract after allegations its staff viewed private scenes filmed by Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses

More than 1,000 low-paid workers in Kenya have been abruptly sacked by an outsourcing company for the US social media corporation Meta, in what activists said was a “shocking” move exposing the precariousness of global south tech workers.

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.

That came in the after https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo">reports some of the Kenyan workers involved in data annotation were asked to view content filmed by the company’s AI smart glasses showing wearers using the toilet or having sex.