Facebook Content Moderator Suicides

Level 1 – Surface Web

This one is fucked up because its 100% real and provable. Basically content moderators are mostly nonenglish speaking third world labourers who get paid next to nothing to sift through facebook flagged content and sort out the child porn etc. Because of the things these people see they are often quite traumatized by the work and many actually kill themselves. The deaths are kept quiet by the facebook company because it operates via a third party in the country. This is mentioned in the documentary The Cleaners. It is not a very good film overall but has some good info.

LINKS
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizantfacebookcontentmoderatorinterviewstraumaworkingconditionsarizona

https://www.livemint.com/technology/technews/stressedfacebookcontentmoderatordiedondutyinusreport1561127186197.html