{"id":858282,"date":"2024-09-21T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=858282"},"modified":"2024-09-21T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:52:23","slug":"kenyan-court-rejects-metas-jurisdiction-appeal-allowing-content-moderators-case-to-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/21\/kenyan-court-rejects-metas-jurisdiction-appeal-allowing-content-moderators-case-to-proceed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan court rejects Meta\u2019s jurisdiction appeal, allowing content moderators\u2019 case to proceed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, Facebook\u2019s parent company, lost its appeal in a Kenyan labour court on Friday, allowing a lawsuit filed by content moderators to move forward. The court ruled that Meta could be sued in Kenya over the mass dismissal of content moderators, a decision the company had challenged.<\/p>\n<p>The case, brought by around 185 content moderators from several African countries who were employed by Meta\u2019s contractor, Sama, in Nairobi, will now proceed in the labour court. The moderators are seeking compensation amounting to USD 1.6 billion, according to their lawyer, Mercy Mutemi, as reported by Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, Facebook\u2019s parent company, lost its appeal in a Kenyan labour court on Friday, allowing a lawsuit filed by content moderators to move forward. The court ruled that Meta could be sued in Kenya over the mass dismissal of content moderators, a decision the company had challenged. The case, brought by around 185 content moderators from several African countries who were employed by Meta\u2019s contractor, Sama, in Nairobi, will now proceed in the labour court. The moderators are seeking compensation amounting to USD 1.6 billion, according to their lawyer, Mercy Mutemi, as reported by Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}