Facebook was accused in court this week of misunderstanding basic human rights law after it tried to claim it wasn’t responsible for traumatising a content moderator who watched a beheading video.
Facebook is claiming immunity from Kenyan law in an attempt to avoid dealing with outsourced content moderators in the East African country who watch disturbing and harmful content as part of their jobs.
Daniel Motaung, who worked as a content moderator in Nairobi, is suing Sama, Facebook’s main outsourcing contractor in East Africa. Lawyers for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, argued in June that the Kenyan court has no jurisdiction over the company because it is “not resident, trading or domiciled in Kenya”.
