Meta’s settlement talks with Kenyan content moderators break down

Facebook parent company and two subcontractors face court hearing over unfair dismissal allegations

Settlement talks have collapsed between Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and Kenyan content moderators over a lawsuit alleging unfair dismissal, a tech-rights group working with the plaintiffs has said.

The 184 moderators sued Meta and two subcontractors earlier this year after they allegedly lost their jobs with one of the subcontractors, Sama, for organising a union. They say they were then blacklisted from applying for the same roles at a second firm, Majorel, after Facebook changed contractors.