The company Téus International, responsible for moderating part of the content published on Facebook and Instagram, will eliminate more than 2,000 jobs in Barcelona after breach of the contract that linked it to its parent company, the Group goal, we learned on May 5 from a union source.
During a meeting this Monday morning, the Management of Télus “formally presented a social plan” that affects “2,059 people” in its place in Barcelona, in the northeast of Spain, he announced in a press release The Union Commissions (CCOO).
This is “all employees who perform moderation tasks” for Facebook and Instagram of the Barcelona site of Télus International, a subsidiary of the Canadian Giant Télécom Telus, adds the union organization.
“Relocation opportunities”
According to CCOO, who says that he has signed a principle of agreement that provides “the highest legal compensation” for employees, this social plan was decided after the cancellation of the binding tech in finish, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Company. The cancellation of the contract had been announced in early April by several unions, which had already advanced the figure of 2,000 positions of positions, specifying that the exact number of affected people was to be negotiation.
Questioned by AFP, a spokesman for Télus had refused to confirm this figure, ensuring that the discussions were going and that Téus continued to work “for other places” with this “client”, of which he had not identified. Again, he requested this May 5, this spokesman again refused to give the exact number of positions.
Contacted by AFP, Meta had not followed Monday at noon. The American group announced in January the end of the verification of events in the United States and updated its regulations and their practices on the moderation of the content, to rule out less messages and publications that can twist their standards.
“Too much content was censored when they should not have been,” said the group, a decision widely seen as a way of satisfying President Donald Trump, very critical of the goal moderation policy in recent years.
However, at the end of April, the Meta Supervision Board requested that the group’s management measure the possible effects on the abolition of human rights of its fact verification program and the softness of moderation on its platforms.
Source: BFM TV
