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Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 25 2018, @03:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the PTSD dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A former Facebook Inc contract employee filed a lawsuit in California, alleging that content moderators who face mental trauma after reviewing distressing images on the platform are not being properly protected by the social networking company.

Facebook moderators under contract are "bombarded" with "thousands of videos, images and livestreamed broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide and murder," the lawsuit said.

"Facebook is ignoring its duty to provide a safe workplace and instead creating a revolving door of contractors who are irreparably traumatized by what they witnessed on the job," Korey Nelson, a lawyer for former Facebook contract employee Selena Scola, said in a statement on Monday.

Facebook in the past has said all of its content reviewers have access to mental health resources, including trained professionals onsite for both individual and group counseling, and they receive full health care benefits.

"We take the support of our content moderators incredibly seriously, ... ensuring that every person reviewing Facebook content is offered psychological support and wellness resources," said Bertie Thomson, director of corporate communications.

Also at the Register.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @06:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @06:16PM (#739796)

    Sociopaths would be better suited. They're not an aberration in the species, you know. They evolved because they're better suited than "sane" people to some areas of human society.

    Sociopathy is CPTSD, you're thinking of psychopathy and they didn't evolve, they devolved -- even animals are capable of empathy. You've identified the subclasses of society making and sharing the objectionable content. Aspies can deal with it.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by deimtee on Wednesday September 26 2018, @12:26AM (1 child)

    by deimtee (3272) on Wednesday September 26 2018, @12:26AM (#739954) Journal

    There is no such thing as devolution. There is only evolving to fit the current environment.
    If that results in the loss of features, then the features were redundant. If it results in less complexity, then the complexity is unnecessary.

    TMB is also wrong when he says they evolved for a reason. There are no goals in evolution. There is only random change and survival of what works. It can look directed, but it is really just random changes with survival/breeding as a hill climbing algorithm.

    --
    If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.