The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge πŸ“¦

9    22 Dec 2020 17:05 by u/oshout

Though I sympathize with them being contracted & paid very little by a huge corporation to sort through their money generating content separating tortious content from that merely reported as such, this bit made me chuckle: " The moderators told me it’s a place where the conspiracy videos and memes that they see each day gradually lead them to embrace fringe views. One auditor walks the floor promoting the idea that the Earth is flat. A former employee told me he has begun to question certain aspects of the Holocaust. Another former employee, who told me he has mapped every escape route out of his house and sleeps with a gun at his side, said: β€œI no longer believe 9/11 was a terrorist attack.” "

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I get that many people don't want to watch that shit, but this is where FB and other companies should be actively trying to hire high functioning sociopaths, autists, and other people who are just naturally immune to graphic content. If your whole day is ruined because you saw a video of someone dying, content moderation is not the right job for you.
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Serious question: could this work be outsourced to inmates who volunteer? Regards, 🟨
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Maybe? I could very easily someone calling it "cruel and unusual punishment" though.
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prison: "2 packs of smokes and snacks for weeks if you delete FB videos that are violent" inmate: "hell yesss"
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I didn't say that the person invoking C&U would be someone reasonable.
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"Why get a marketable skill when I could be a FB mod?" This is the tech equivalent of working fast food. It's not a shameful job unless you never move on or move up and try to make a career of it. The real story should be about how the two lowest rungs on the tech ladder are so far apart that you can't progress on job experience alone.
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Or...fb and Twitter could of applied integrity as a whole and just got rid or not grow more when the companied reached a certain point. There was a world with out them prior. We can do it again