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Meta can be sued in Kenya for human trafficking and for algorithmic amplification of harm (Open Democracy)Billy Perrigo on investigating Facebook’s ‘ethical’ outsourced content moderation in Kenya (Everything in Moderation)A first look at Meta’s Community Notes (Indicator Media)Get Noted (Columbia Journalism Review)The Meaning of Being an African YouTuber: Big Audiences, No Big Money + Is TikTok Excluding Africans From its Creator Economy? (Fast Company)Is TikTok Excluding Africans From its Creator Economy? (OkayAfrica)I was tricked, tortured, finally freed: inside a Burmese scam farm (The Times)Tanzania announces shutdown of X because of pornography (BBC)

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