{
  "id": 15383,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-outsourcing-company-for-meta-sacks-workers",
  "title": "Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract",
  "summary": "More than 1,000 low-paid workers in Kenya have been abruptly sacked by an outsourcing company contracted by Meta, in what activists said was a shocking move exposing the precariousness of tech jobs in the global south. Sama, a company base ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1418#7634)",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "incident",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": "meta",
  "regions": "africa",
  "published_at": "2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-01T05:10:57.676Z",
  "source_slug": "aiid",
  "source_name": "AI Incident Database",
  "source_homepage": "https://incidentdatabase.ai",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15383",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-outsourcing-company-for-meta-sacks-workers",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}