Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya
  • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    9 days ago

    I hope they win their lawsuit. I listened to a Radio lab episode a few years ago about FB moderators. The shit they have to see day in and day out sound absolutely horrible. Pics and videos of extreme violence and child pornography sounds like it’d give any normal person some major trauma.

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Go on the Reddit front page or Twitter home page with a heart rate and blood pressure monitor and scroll for 10 minutes.

        You will find that in almost every instance, both measures go up. The whole point of social media is to agitate because agitation correlates with engagement which correlates with mucho ad dinero.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        The company should be doing more to support these employees, that’s the point. Right now, Meta doesn’t give a fuck if their employees are getting severely traumatized trying to keep content off their platforms. They don’t pay them much, don’t offer resources for mental health, etc. A maybe bad analogy would be like a construction company having no heavy machinery safety policies and when those employees get hurt and can’t work anymore, just firing them with no worker’s comp.

        For comparison, hospitals or law enforcement provide therapy and/or other mental health resources for their employees, since those jobs put their employees in potentially traumatic positions with some frequency (e.g. a doctor/nurse witnessing death a lot).

  • JovialMicrobial@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    7 days ago

    Holy shit!

    I havent been on fb for a long time, I mean years, so I didn’t realize it had basically turned into the dumping grounds for the rest of the internet.

    It reminds me of an article i read a long time ago about the police branches that have to deal with reviewing csam and the toll it takes on them.

    I don’t typically have much sympathy for the police, but anyone who has to look at that stuff and basically get psychological damage in order to convict the people who create it have my respect.

    Those moderators don’t deserve that shit. I hope they win their lawsuit.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    68·
    9 days ago

    Look… this is going to sound exceedingly stupid… but shouldn’t they find a way to use convicted sex offenders to filter out CSAM? They are not going to be traumatised by it and it saves some other poor soul from taking the brunt. How do you motivate them to actually do it? Well first one has to flag, and a second one earns a bonus every time the first one flags wrong. Motivation aligned!

    </joking… but seriously though…>