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In February 2022, TIME published an expose under the headline: “Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop”. The story revealed allegations of unfair labor practices and hazardous working conditions at the Kenyan operations of Sama, a California-headquartered company contracted to provide content moderation services in Africa to Meta, Facebook’s parent company. It was, in my reading, a glimpse into digital coloniality, a concept that I will be using in the coming months of my research fellowship at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy.