A former YouTube moderator sued YouTube on Monday, accusing it of failing to protect workers who have to catch and remove violent videos posted to the site. The suit says the plaintiff was required to ...
Facebook relies on thousands of content moderators to scrub graphic posts from the platform, including child abuse imagery, violence, and self-harm content. In this anonymous interview, a former ...
JOHANNESBURG, May 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The first video Daniel Motaung had to watch while working as a Facebook content moderator in Kenya was of a beheading. After just six months in the ...
Trevin Brownie’s first day as a content moderator for Facebook is etched in his memory, working out of a subcontractor’s nondescript office in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. “My first video, it was a man ...
Illustrated by Maya Scarpa for The Washington Post. Beatrix Lockwood spoke to Alberto Cuadra, a former content moderator for a popular video streaming app. You’re reading Shifts, an illustrated ...
“The former content moderators say they have been trapped in a difficult situation. In addition to losing their income, many told Rest of World they’re dealing with mental health issues resulting from ...
BARCELONA/MADRID, Jan 18 (Reuters) - A Spanish court has ruled a former Facebook moderator's mental health was damaged by his work reviewing graphic content such as beheadings, in a case that could ...
Social media companies have slashed hundreds of content moderation jobs during the ongoing wave of tech layoffs, stoking fears among industry workers and online safety advocates that major platforms ...