Okay the speech issue aside because it's frankly been debated to death, what I find really crazy about the situation is how much this is being treated by Facebook as a 'mechanical turk' like task.
The author describes having only a few seconds for a pretty complex task and is exposed to disturbing material for essentially their entire workday, without any adequate psychological training at all.
This is not how content moderation should be done at all, and I'm not even sure that this should be treated like a routine job.
The author describes having only a few seconds for a pretty complex task and is exposed to disturbing material for essentially their entire workday, without any adequate psychological training at all.
This is not how content moderation should be done at all, and I'm not even sure that this should be treated like a routine job.