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Moderators of Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A forum for programmers, have announced today they will be going on strike citing the company’s prohibition on moderating AI-generated content on the platform.Top Takeaways from the Apple EventThe moderators announced the strike on the company’s Meta board this morning, and released an accompanying letter addressed directly to Stack Overflow. Last week in a post—which has been downvoted at least 283 times—Stack Overflow announced its new moderation policy that will only remove…

A Kenyan court has ruled that Meta is the primary employer of content moderators suing the social media giant and its content review partner in Africa, Sama, for unlawful dismissal. The 184 moderators, in the suit filed in March this year, also alleged that Meta’s new content review partner on the continent, Majorel, had blacklisted them on instruction by Meta. Justice Byram Ongaya of Kenya’s employment and labor relations court on Friday watered down the social media giant’s plan to recuse itself from the case…

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Content moderators under Sama, Meta’s content review sub-contractor in Africa, earlier today picketed at the company’s headquarters in Kenya demanding April salary, while urging it to observe the court orders that barred it from conducting mass layoffs. The demonstrations came after Sama, in an email, instructed moderators to clear with the company by May 11, a move the employees say is against the existing court orders. The 184 moderators sued Sama for allegedly laying them off unlawfully,…

The Messenger app's Community Chats feature enables you to establish a Facebook Group, initiate chats and audio channels, and extend invitations to others to join your newly created group. This Discord-like functionality empowers Facebook Group administrators with full authority over the Community Chat by enabling them to add or eliminate members, as well as assign them as administrators or moderators.Adding or removing Community Chat admins or moderatorsWhen you add or remove someone as admin or moderator, your Facebook…

A Kenyan judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the mass redundancy of some 260 Facebook content moderators working for an outsourcing company contracted by the social media site's parent company Meta, court documents show. Judge Matthews Nduma issued an interim injunction against Meta and the Kenya-based outsourcing firm Sama, preventing them from terminating the content moderators' contracts at the end of March, pending a judgement on the legality of their redundancy. Last week 43 moderators at Facebook's Nairobi…

Facebook content moderators in Kenya are suing the social media site's parent company Meta and two outsourcing companies for unlawful redundancy, a rights group said on Monday. The 43 applicants say they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, for organising a union. They also say they were blacklisted from applying for the same roles at another outsourcing firm, Majorel, after Facebook switched contractors. Last month Meta filed an appeal in Kenya challenging a ruling which…

Facebook content moderators in Kenya are suing the social media site's parent company Meta and two outsourcing companies for unlawful redundancy, a rights group said on Monday.The 43 applicants say they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, for organising a union. They also say they were blacklisted from applying for the same roles at another outsourcing firm, Majorel, after Facebook switched contractors.Last month Meta filed an appeal in Kenya challenging a ruling which…

Screening social media content to remove abuse or other banned material is one of the toughest jobs in tech, but also one of the most undervalued. Content moderators for TikTok and Meta in Germany have banded together to demand more recognition for workers who are employed to keep some of the worst content off social platforms, in a rare moment of coordinated pushback by tech workers across companies.The combined group met in Berlin last week to demand from the two platforms higher pay, more psychological support, and the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Online communities play an important role in creating a sense of connection between strangers. But what happens when the people moderating our favorite online communities quit? Why do they quit, and what strategies can companies like Meta and Reddit implement to help prevent burnout? A study by…