Facebook's low-paid army of content moderators, who are often subjected to poor working conditions, suffer PTSD-like symptoms as they are exposed on a daily basis to some of the vilest and fringe content posted to the social network, according to a scathing new investigative report by The Verge.
The tech publication starts off describing how Chloe, a content moderator at Phoenix, Ariz.-based Cognizant – where 1,000 people work to make very fast decisions under intense pressure about whether content that's been flagged is in violation of Facebook's rules – on that day has to moderate posts in front of her fellow soon-to-be-moderators as she's being trained.
"The video depicts a man being murdered. Someone is stabbing him, dozens of times, while he screams and begs for his life. Chloe’s job is to tell the room whether this post should be removed. She knows that section 13 of the Facebook community standards prohibits videos that depict the murder of one or more people. When Chloe explains this to the class, she hears her voice shaking," The Verge reports, adding that she later leaves the room and cries so hard she can barely breathe.
I was a mod a few years back on one of the top ten boards. I walked away from the job because I could handle gore and porn and diverse opinions, but not the foul spam coming from the cp websites on an almost hourly basis. My kids were only a little older than the children being posted in the thread images and one day I just couldn't take it anymore. I wanted to kill those fucks but the best I could do was ban them and wait for them to come back with a new ip.
Adam Clark
Anyone know what video they be talkin bout?
Juan Evans
Fake story was paid for bundled in with the OP?
Gabriel Jackson
The worst shock content i ever seen was the one with mexican cartel members skinning the man alive and cutting him apart, while he's still alive and suffering.
And then those people illegaly cross american border.
Jeremiah Robinson
fuck. I want one of these jobs
Isaiah Cook
I'd be fucked up too if I was kiked enough to work for kikebook.
Daniel Bennett
LOL, they can all quit and just learn to code, amirite?
Joshua Thomas
No one's paying for shit here. Do you realize how few users we have?
Lincoln Wright
facebook moderating… it will fuck you up worse the john rambo.
