There are countless scandals surrounding Meta, the parent company of Facebook. And a complaint filed last week in Kenya should not restore her image. Daniel Motaung, a former Facebook moderator in charge of all of East and South Africa, just filed a complaint there against his company Sama. What is the relationship with Meta? Itself is a subcontractor of Facebook. Indeed, Daniel Motaung is making very serious allegations against the Meta: compensation violations, breach of confidentiality, misleading recruitment practices. On this last point, the Claimant explains that Sama did not indicate missions new employee when son interview. However, this practice is reprehensible under an article of the Kenyan Constitution. Plaintiff’s lawyers even qualify them as “trafficking in accordance with the modern form of slavery.” But seriously, the candidates were chosen according to their social class. Sama volunteered to hire profiles from very humble families to make them feel indebted. If they rebelled or noticed problems, employees were threatened with dismissal. “Take whaton Give it to you and shut up,” Daniel Motaung would have heard. The latter also condemned the company’s inaction. face to the content violence that moderators have to deal with. “The first video I saw was of a live beheading,” Motaung said Tuesday at a press conference hosted by the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an anti-Facebook association. “Imagine what it can do to the average person if you watch other similar videos, images and content every day.”
Meta gets the violins
“We take responsibility for the people who seriously review content for Meta and require our partners to provide industry-leading wages, benefits and support,” Meta told AFP. We encourage moderators to report issues when they arise and regularly conduct independent reviews to ensure our partners maintain the high standards we expect. Statements that do their best to make people forget the seriousness of the allegations made by the Kenyan moderator. This is all the more true as the company is not on son first attempt and did not seem to appreciate the importance of their moderators. Le Monde recalls that in 2020 Facebook was ordered to pay 52 millions dollars to their moderators. Mark Zuckerberg’s company was then accused of not taking into account the trauma received by the moderators during their activities with violent and / or disturbing content. Obviously, some things are hard to fit into the meta.
