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Kenyan court rules Meta can be sued over layoffs by contractor

Content moderators sued Meta and two local contractors, saying they lost their jobs for organising a union.

By REUTERS A Kenyan court ruled on Friday that Facebook's parent company Meta could be sued in the East African nation over the dismissal of dozens of content moderators by a contractor. They said they were then blacklisted from applying for the same roles at another firm, Majorel, after Facebook changed contractors. Friday's decision by the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling by a Kenyan labour court in April 2023 that Meta could face trial over the moderators' dismissals, which Meta appealed.

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