The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators in America

Originally published at: https://tidbits.com/2019/03/04/the-secret-lives-of-facebook-moderators-in-america/

In an impressive piece of investigative journalism, Casey Newton of The Verge has published an article describing what it’s like to work as a Facebook content moderator. Short answer: it sounds horrible.

Thanks, Adam, for pointing us to that piece. An excellent article. Very interesting, even for a non-FB user like myself.

Every anniversary, I think of the people who ‘filtered’ the news footage around 9/11. Frequently interns and contractors, who saw footage of the people who fell including the landings. None of it made the news but they too had years of therapy after it.

Some more on this from Facebook’s former chief security officer.