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........

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