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A day in the life of a Facebook content moderator

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Alma, Jun 20, 2019.

  1. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Three Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose a company in crisis


    “For the six months after he was hired, Speagle would moderate 100 to 200 posts a day. He watched people throw puppies into a raging river, and put lit fireworks in dogs’ mouths. He watched people mutilate the genitals of a live mouse, and chop off a cat’s face with a hatchet. He watched videos of people playing with human fetuses, and says he learned that they are allowed on Facebook “as long as the skin is translucent.” He found that he could no longer sleep for more than two or three hours a night. He would frequently wake up in a cold sweat, crying.

    Early on, Speagle came across a video of two women in North Carolina encouraging toddlers to smoke marijuana, and helped to notify the authorities. (Moderator tools have a mechanism for escalating issues to law enforcement, and the women were eventually convicted of misdemeanor child abuse.) To Speagle’s knowledge, though, the crimes he saw every day never resulted in legal action being taken against the perpetrators. The work came to feel pointless, never more so than when he had to watch footage of a murder or child pornography case that he had already removed from Facebook.

    In June 2018, a month into his job, Facebook began seeing a rash of videos that purportedly depicted organs being harvested from children. (It did not.) So many graphic videos were reported that they could not be contained in Speagle’s queue.”
     
  2. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Breaking news: humans are horrible people. Film at 11.
     
  3. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

  4. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Planet is gonna' be much better off when humans aren't on it.
     
  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    That was a disturbing read.
     
  6. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Not all sweatshops are in third-world countries. Despicable.
     
  7. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    I am not going to click and slightly upset by reading that clip.
     
  8. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

  9. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member

    That's nothing. I just posted a Fleetwood Mac video.
     
  10. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    YOU SICK MOTHERFUCKER!
     
    britwrit likes this.
  11. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    We should all be assigned an internet license, like a drivers license, when we are, say, 10.

    We use this license code to sign up to any social media platform. We post horrific shit online, we are banned from social media for years, possibly for life.

    It will never happen, but it should.
     
    cyclingwriter2 and OscarMadison like this.
  12. Severian

    Severian Well-Known Member

    It will never happen. The best thing that could happen is if Facebook shuts down.
     
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