Facebook's African Sweatshop with Billy Perrigo

Podcast: Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi MalatjiEpisode: Facebook's African Sweatshop with Billy PerrigoPub date: 2022-04-29Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Exposing how Facebook outsources content moderation on the cheap to a company called Sama in Kenya. Facebook's relationship with Sama has translated to low pay and exploitative working conditions faced by content moderators – as well as the repression of worker resistance.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday we welcome Billy Perrigo to discuss the exploitation of African workers performing content moderation for Facebook. Billy is a staff writer at TIME covering social media companies, with a focus on content moderation and responsible AI. In this episode, we cover Billy's article at TIME, "Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop", which exposes how Facebook outsources content moderation 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. Tech Empire is part of the Yale Podcast Network, and can be found on Soundcloud, iTunes, and YouTube, with additional outlets coming soon. You can follow Billy on Twitter at @billy_perrigo. Follow Tech Empire at @TechEmpireCast, Michael Kwet at @Michael_Kwet, and Tshi Malatji at @tshimalatji.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from YaleUniversity, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.