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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
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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @06:56PM
Uh, what? Because you followed that up with an argument:
I don't know what's missing. Because I'm part of the 99.9% who don't know enough about this topic to say what is missing. This is about "fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you." What I do know is that leaving out the important stuff is their standard operating procedure. So the question isn't "what did they leave out?" The question is "why should I believe they have the whole story this time?"