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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.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:45PM (3 children)
2 girls 1 cup was more about being exposed to the trauma of it....... then quickly deciding to inflict it upon another. The video is fairly disgusting, but non-violent. What was violent was the retching it induced in some others that viewed it. It was like a viral practical joke. Lookup reaction videos to it. That's the part that was fun, was seeing the devastation in some people's faces. Reaction video porn more aptly describes it.
I do remember showing it to a buddy who had his father visiting him for their home country. He just kept looking at us and asking, "That's not real is it? That's fake stuff in the movies right? People don't actually do that right?". He left the country absolutely haunted by it :)
That video of the guy cutting off his dick though, I decided the same thing you did. Not even once.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:56PM (2 children)
The reaction videos were enough for me to not watch either one. It made me think about being more careful.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday September 25 2018, @09:02PM (1 child)
I never had a choice. Somebody else inflicted it upon me :)
By careful, you mean I should of been more suspicious of my friend's smiles...
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:02PM
I suppose that is one meaning of careful. Who do you trust, and how much. Hopefully friends would realize that such a thing should not be done. Or that you would not want to see it, even as a joke. And that knowing you, they would respect your values, because they are friends.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.