Content moderator at live-streaming porn site Chaturbate sues, saying he suffered PTSD from his work

A content moderator for the popular porn site Chaturbate alleged in a lawsuit that he has suffered "psychological trauma" ...
AOL

Former YouTube content moderator describes horrors of the job in new lawsuit

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 ...
Inc

Facebook’s 7,500 Moderators Protect You From the Internet’s Most Horrifying Content. But Who’s Protecting Them?

A new lawsuit is shedding light on an unpleasant and often overlooked reality of many high-profile Silicon Valley businesses. The action can hardly come as a surprise. Social media companies rely on ...
CNET

Ex-content moderator sues YouTube, claims job led to PTSD symptoms and depression

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...
Cfr.org

Don’t Blame Your Indian Content Moderator

Sabrina Ahmad is a recent MSc graduate from the Oxford Internet Institute and a content designer in London, UK. Most Internet users are insulated from the depths of human depravity online; that’s due ...
MIT Technology Review

Unsung heroes: Moderators on the front lines of internet safety

Digital first responders screen nefarious content online, so that we don’t have to. Provided byTeleperformance It’s no secret that digital predators are lurking online in record numbers, exposing ...
Fast Company

Content moderators alone can’t clean up our toxic internet

In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests spreading across the nation, Facebook content moderators are revolting over the way the company and its leadership are handling political speech that incites ...
Wired

Facebook’s content moderators are fighting back

Seven hours a day, Isabella Plunkett and 15,000 other content moderators around the world look at and filter the most repulsive content on the internet for Facebook. But they don’t actually work for ...

As some on the internet celebrate a CEO's murder, content moderators are at a crossroads

UPDATE: Dec. 9, 2024, 3:00 p.m. EDT A 26-year-old man named Luigi Mangione was arrested on gun charges at a Pennsylvania ...
Business Insider

Facebook content moderator who quit reportedly wrote a blistering letter citing 'stress induced insomnia' among other 'trauma'

Facebook has long faced criticism over its treatment of thousands of contracted content moderators. A moderator who recently quit reportedly shared a note internally condemning Facebook over these ...
Forbes

The Role Of Content Moderation In Understanding Your Customers

Alex Ross is cofounder & COO at Hire Horatio CX. Horatio CX manages the CX & other customer needs for today's fastest-growing brands. Since the digital revolution, content moderation has typically ...