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More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

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Re: More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

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Post by nappy-doo »

I worked at FB for almost 2 years. (I left as soon as I could, I knew it wasn't a good fit for me.)

I had an Uber from the campus one day, and my driver, a twenty-something girl, was asking how to become a moderator. I told her, "no amount of money would be enough for me to do that job. Don't do it."

I don't know if she eventually got the job, but I hope she didn't.

Re: More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

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Post by neilv »

If I was a tech billionaire, and there was so much uploading of stuff so bad, that it was giving my employee/contractors PTSD, I think I'd find a way to stop the perpetrators.

(I'm not saying that I'd assemble a high-speed yacht full of commandos, who travel around the world, righting wrongs when no one else can. Though that would be more compelling content than most streaming video episodes right now. So you could offset the operational costs a bit.)

Re: More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

neilv wrote: post #5

If I was a tech billionaire, and there was so much uploading of stuff so bad, that it was giving my employee/contractors PTSD, I think I'd find a way to stop the perpetrators. (I'm not saying that I'd assemble a high-speed yacht full of commandos, who travel around the world, righting wrongs when no one else can. Though that would be more compelling content than most streaming video episodes right now. So you could o…

How else would you stop the perpetrators?
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