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posted by n1 on Thursday June 01 2017, @07:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the like,-share,-report-terror dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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


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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday June 01 2017, @04:58PM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday June 01 2017, @04:58PM (#518932) Journal
    "Your false equivalence between deliberate tabloid trash and imperfect journalism is nihilistic intellectual laziness."

    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.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:40PM (#518963)

    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

    Lol. I didn't do it, so here I will do it.

    These organizations may have one or two reporters left on staff

    Yeah, you clearly have a strong grip on alt-reality.