The Life and Death of TikTok Content Moderator Ladi Olubunmi: Digital Labor Exploitation

In Mart 2025, a foul odor emanating from Ladi Anzaki Olubunmi's apartment in Kenya caught the attention of neighbors.

A colleague who came to the area to check on the situation saw through the window that the 41-year-old woman had passed away. Olubunmi's swollen and decomposing body was found on her bed next to two Bibles…