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  "url": "https://www.the-star.co.ke/opinion/star-blogs/2026-06-15-otieno-how-fragile-kenyas-ai-economy-really-is",
  "title": "OTIENO: Sama’s 1,108 lost jobs an indication of how fragile our AI economy really is",
  "summary": "On April 16 this year, the Nairobi outsourcing firm Sama told 1,108 of its workers they were losing their jobs. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, had walked away from a contract that paid most of those salaries. Severance is being wo ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1418#7641)",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "incident",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": "meta",
  "regions": null,
  "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/15390",
  "original_url": "https://www.the-star.co.ke/opinion/star-blogs/2026-06-15-otieno-how-fragile-kenyas-ai-economy-really-is",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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