Telus Digital, the company of moderators of content issued by Meta in Barcelona, closes his center in the city and claims that the company of … Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook and Instagram, ends the activities in the Catalan capital. The measure leaves a guard for the nearly 2,100 employees of the company, responsible for filtering sensitive content in the aforementioned social networks. The news comes shortly after the turn that Mark Zuckerberg has undertaken in January to reduce the degree of content and to delegate this function in the users themselves, comparable to the notes of the X community via a medium.
The Télus office in Barcelona, at the Glòries Tower, was without activity this Thursday and the employees were sent home. According to sources that are close to the affected, the staff had no access to the facilities or e -mail. For the time being Téus has not yet launched employment regulations file (honorary), not even temporary, nor have there been dismissal messages, according to the same sources.
This closure comes three months after Mark Zuckerberg announced the elimination of verifications in their networks in a historic turn, in an approach to Donald Trump’s policy and according to De Lijn that Elon Musk maintains in X, opposition against what they both understand as “censorship and limitation of freedom of expression”. This new dynamic makes all metagematerators replaceable, including those in Barcelona.
It must be reminded that this moderation center had been news for the complaints of their own employees about the circumstances in which they carried out their work, a large part of which consisted of assessing extremely violent and brutal material. At the end of 2023, almost 20% of the staff were reduced for psychological reasons. Some of these employees had taken legal measures against the company, processes that will not be influenced by the new situation and will continue his course.
For its part, and through a public explanation, the company points out that “it is evolving and adjusting the volume of its services to meet the needs and requirements of its customers.” He adds that these “diversify their presence and move their services to other locations” and that “changes and adjustments” are part of their “usual operation” and that they will offer extensive support for the transition to all members of the affected team.
