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I'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
by shard 5y ago
I'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 5y 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.