Meta content moderator cuts over 2,000 jobs in Spain: union [Video]

Canadian tech firm Telus International, tasked by Meta to moderate content on its social media networks Facebook and Instagram, will slash over 2,000 jobs in Barcelona, a Spanish union said Monday.

The move comes as Mark Zuckerberg’s company has cut its third-party fact-checking in the United States and overhauled its content moderation policies.

Telus, which operates locally as Barcelona Digital Services, said during a Monday meeting that it had terminated the contracts “of all workers who were performing content moderation tasks” for Meta, affecting 2,059 people, union CCOO said in a statement.

According to the union, the redundancy plan was decided after Meta cancelled its contract with Telus, which had provided content moderation for the tech giant since 2018.

CCOO added it had signed a preliminary agreement that will grant “the highest possible legal compensation” for the workers affected.

Contacted by AFP, a Telus spokesman refused to disclose how many …