Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop

Wages for Facebook - Dissent Magazine

The art campaign Wages for Facebook is an attempt to unsettle the digital marketization of our relationships that many of us have already come to accept as normal.

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them | TechCrunch

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a "Facebook Research" VPN that lets the company suck in all of

Facebook isn't just giving these agitators a platform: it's paying them

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

Labelers training AI say they're overworked, underpaid and exploited by big American tech companies

Digital workers in Kenya had to sift through horrific online content to train AI, but say they were underpaid, overworked, and got inadequate mental health support. So they're fighting back.

The work at hand

I work on problems with networks because I am an ordinary person and I care about ordinary people. Sometimes caring about ordinary people means finding new ropes to pull on and throwing your weight into it. For those of us inside the US but outside the VIP lounge of American

Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving cars

The data that powers the most cutting edge technology in Silicon Valley begins in Nairobi's slum.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From

Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.

Software as Fast Fashion

Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper than a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to […]

QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show

The preliminary results of an investigation by Facebook shed new light on the scope of activity and content from the QAnon community on the platform.

Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

Paid groups, bespoke social networks, and the meaning of community for internet-native businesses.

Bosses Are Blowing More Money on AI Agents Than It'd Cost Them to Just Pay Human Workers

Some organizings are finding themselves spending more on AI token fees than they do paying human salaries.