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They are the army of workers who man Facebook's front line, tasked with removing offensive and terror-related material from the internet giant's site.
But a Mail on Sunday investigation has discovered the multi-billion pound social networking site employs hundreds of young Filipinos – some with limited English skills – who work gruelling shifts and say they earn just £1.81 an hour.
They are forced to decide in seconds whether or not to delete videos, pictures and posts which are too graphic or violent.
Staff face being sacked if they fail to meet strict quotas that mean they have to assess hundreds of extreme posts every shift.
Source: The Daily Mail
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday June 01 2017, @04:58PM (1 child)
I made no such false equivalence - that's on you.
The WSJ, WaPo, etc. are no longer imperfect journalism - they're publishing deliberate tabloid trash and that's been true for a long time now. These organizations may have one or two reporters left on staff and therefore accidentally produce journalism on occasion but it's clearly a small and shrinking minority of what they do.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:40PM
Lol. I didn't do it, so here I will do it.
Yeah, you clearly have a strong grip on alt-reality.