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About 200 African content moderators are being laid off by Sama, Meta’s Kenyan subcontractor. This comes after Facebook’s parent company Meta declined to renew Sama’s contract, which expires at the end of March. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)

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Facebook offers African moderators a pitiful severance

The deal offered to Africans is eight times lower than that given to Meta’s staff

Lydia Namubiru, The Continent