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150 content moderators, who contract for Meta, ByteDance and OpenAI gathered in Nairobi, Kenya to launch the first African Content Moderators Union on May 1, 2023. This union was launched 4 years after Daniel Motaung was fired and retaliated against for organizing at Sama, which contracts for Facebook.
Commercial Content Moderation is a term coined by Sarah T. Roberts to describe the practice of "monitoring and vetting user-generated content (UGC) for social media platforms of all types, in order to ensure that the content complies with legal and regulatory exigencies, site/community guidelines, user agreements, and that it falls within norms of taste and acceptability for that site and its ...
In May 2020, Facebook agreed to a preliminary settlement of $52 million ($61.2 million in 2023 dollars [29]) to compensate U.S.-based Facebook content moderators for their psychological trauma suffered on the job. [295] [296] Other legal actions around the world, including in Ireland, await settlement. [297]
Daniel Motaung said he applied for a moderator job in Kenya not realizing he would be working at Facebook and exposed to graphic content.
The moderator was employed between 2018 and 2020 by CCC Barcelona Digital Services, part of Telus International, which is one of Facebook owner Meta's outsourced providers. Meta did not ...
Facebook agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $52 million on May 12, 2020, which included a $1,000 payment to each of the 11,250 moderators in the class, with additional compensation available for the treatment of PTSD and other conditions resulting from the jobs.
A discussion moderator or debate moderator is a person whose role is to act as a neutral participant in a debate or discussion, holds participants to time limits and tries to keep them from straying off the topic of the questions being raised in the debate. Sometimes moderators may ask questions intended to allow the debate participants to ...
In response to the Online News Act, Meta (owner of Facebook) began blocking access to news sites for Canadian users at the beginning of August 2023. [15] [16] This also extended to local Canadian news stories about the wildfires, [17] a decision that was heavily criticized by Trudeau, local government officials, academics, researchers, and evacuees.