In Nairobi’s Silicon Savanna, African workers are taking on Big Tech | Erica Hellerstein
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Over time, Wabe began to see moderators as “soldiers in disguise” — a low-paid workforce toiling in the shadows to make Facebook usable for billions of people around the world. But he also noted a grim irony in the role he and his colleagues played for the platform’s users : “Everybody is safe because of us,” he said. “But we are not.” Source: Coda Story