The social media platform Meta Platforms services 3 billion users across its subsidiaries Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads. Meta employs an estimated 60–80,000 employees as of 2023.[1] Facebook subcontracts an additional estimated 15,000 content moderators around the world.[2] The majority of unionized workers at Meta in the United States are subcontractors working as security guards, janitors, bus drivers and culinary staff. In Germany and Kenya, content moderators have formed unions and a works council in 2023.
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- ^ Bernal, Natasha. "Facebook's content moderators are fighting back". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved September 26, 2024.