Meta's legal issues with Kenya could be resolved in a Kenyan court

On Thursday, a Kenyan court ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear an appeal from over 200 employees who say that a subcontractor for Facebook's parent company Meta sacked them illegally. On March 17, 183 content moderators employed by Sama, a Meta subcontractor in Nairobi, filed a case in a Nairobi court, alleging "unlawful" termination by the social media titan. According to Meta's counsel, the corporation cannot be sued since the Employment and Labour Relations Court lacks jurisdiction over non-Kenyan organizations. Furthermore, it says that Meta does not employ the complainants. Mathews Nduma Nderi, a Labor Relations Court judge, disagreed. Within Kenya, a local NGO and two Ethiopian individuals have filed a second complaint against the social media behemoth for allegedly neglecting to take action against online hate speech across the continent. The complainants demanded the establishment of a $1.6 billion fund to recompense the victims, alleging that this inactivity led to the death of a university professor in Ethiopia.