{"id":195484,"date":"2025-04-05T23:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-kenyas-high-court-affirms-durisdiction-on-meta-violations-in-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T23:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:05:33","slug":"ethiopia-kenyas-high-court-affirms-durisdiction-on-meta-violations-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-kenyas-high-court-affirms-durisdiction-on-meta-violations-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Kenya&#8217;s High Court Affirms Durisdiction On Meta Violations in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya&#8217;s High Court will proceed to hear a lawsuit against Meta, the social media giant that owns Facebook, over rights violations committed in Ethiopia after the court affirmed its reach on trans-jurisdictional<\/em> <em>matters on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Justice Lawrence Mugambi determined, in a ruling on Thursday, that Kenyan courts have jurisdiction over Meta for violations committed by its content moderators based in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The decision paves the way for a full hearing on a petition that raises critical&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504040397.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya&#8217;s High Court will proceed to hear a lawsuit against Meta, the social media giant that owns Facebook, over rights violations committed in Ethiopia after the court affirmed its reach on trans-jurisdictional matters on Thursday. Justice Lawrence Mugambi determined, in a ruling on Thursday, that Kenyan courts have jurisdiction over Meta for violations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[8836,258,256,6185,51054,4716,6184,430,6097,47330,257,254,11974],"class_list":["post-195484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-affirms","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-durisdiction","tag-ethiopia","tag-high","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-meta","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violations"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}