Marin B
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I listened to an NPR interview with a technology reporter, Casey Newton, regarding an article he wrote about employees at a company in Phoenix, Cognizant, that Facebook contracts for content moderation. A link to the NPR interview and transcript is here: https://www.wfae.org/post/working-lives-facebooks-content-moderators#stream/0 And the original article is here THE TRAUMA FLOOR The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
According to the reporter, what surprised him most about this assignment was that
According to the reporter, what surprised him most about this assignment was that
From the original article:the majority of the people that I spoke with said that the longer they looked at the kind of fringe conspiracies that get posted on to Facebook, the more they found themselves sympathetic to those ideas.
The moderators told me it’s a place where the conspiracy videos and memes that they see each day gradually lead them to embrace fringe views. One auditor walks the floor promoting the idea that the Earth is flat. A former employee told me he has begun to question certain aspects of the Holocaust.