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Mixed feelings from me. I remember the Hussein video. I never believed in the vision, but they hosted important events I simply could not see from other sites.
by irjustin 6y ago
Mixed feelings from me. I remember the Hussein video. I never believed in the vision, but they hosted important events I simply could not see from other sites.
Reddit users rely on it and I knew what I was getting into if I clicked on a LiveLeak link.
Separately, being a content moderator for LL must be absolute hell. While you must filter for illegal things, you're actually expected to watch through the death and gore. That can not be healthy.
- abhishekjha 6y agoIs there any study or papers on people who actively go through such content? What changes about them after?
- mttjj 6y agoNot exactly what you’re looking for but I remember reading this when it was published and it was disturbing to say the least : https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
- scrollaway 6y agoThere's a lot of first hand accounts of people explaining the logic behind seeking and watching such content. The WatchPeopleDie subreddit had a lot of that and you had many people detailing their experience, but iirc it turned into a neo-nazi hangout before it got banned.
- shard 6y agoI'm not aware of any studies, but there are several articles on the content moderators. Some effects mentioned were: - people develop severe anxiety while still in training, and continue to struggle with trauma symptoms long after they leave - conspiracy videos and memes that they see each day gradually lead them to embrace fringe views - Fired employees regularly threatened to return to work and harm their old colleagues - they coped with the stress of the job with sex, drugs, and offensive jokes, all in the workplace - self-harm were also common - turned people intensely paranoid https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo... https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
- winrid 6y agoThis is very upsetting that these people go through this just so a website can be "clean". Of course it's a kind of a "greater good" question, but that still upsets me.
- eigen 6y agosome news stories about various content moderator positions paint a picture that isnt great for the people working the job. https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/04/facebook-content-moderators-ptsd-psychological-dangers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/04/facebook-... https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737498507/for-facebook-content-moderators-traumatizing-material-is-a-job-hazard https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737498507/for-facebook-conten...
- inoffensivename 6y agothe YouTube moderators I've met at Google can get a bit of a faraway look when talking about some of the things they'd seen
- libraryatnight 6y agoI'm too lazy to check for the link but there was a not so distant link here on HN about Facebook content moderators and the horror show that is.
- brigandish 6y agoI do wonder/hope if there's a bio-technological way around it, with drugs or application of a magnetic field to the brain, that would interfere with memory making thus mitigating some or all of the effects. Obviously, it would need to be safe to do. I still shudder inside at one video I saw (on Twitter that took forever to be taken down (>.<)) so I can't imagine what it's like to endure so many.