In this episode, we cover Billy’s article at TIME, “Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop”, which exposes how Facebook outsources content on the cheap to a company called Sama in Kenya. Billy
explains how he discovered the story, Facebook’s relationship to Sama, the low pay and exploitative working conditions faced by content moderators at Sama, how the company is alleged to repress worker resistance, and more.
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