Facebook Owes $52M to Moderators Who Developed PTSD

[ajacobson]

Facebook Owes $52M to Moderators Who Developed PTSD
You may not know it, but Facebook employs thousands of people to moderate its service, and clean up threats of violence, racial slurs, and other violations of both Terms of Service and common decency. That work, as you can imagine, can be pretty depressing. Now Facebook has agreed to a settlement that will compensate 11,250 current and former moderators who developed PTSD during their employment.

 

[clacy]

Millennials

 

[Nobert]

Millennials

Not so.

 

[Amun Ra]

Not so.

You definitely couldn't pay me enough to do that job.

 

[JesseJamesFinn1]

You definitely couldn't pay me enough to do that job.

Seeing people torture animals, kill blow their brains out messes with the mind. Mods are supposed to watch insane crap and stay sane?

 

[BAT31]

Millennials

I was going to write an in depth opinion. Instead, I will just cosign your statement.

 

[Sig]

I was going to write an in depth opinion. Instead, I will just cosign your statement.

Anyone who's actually been exposed to traumatic shit and wasn't impacted in some way is probably somewhere on the antisocial personality disorder spectrum.

 

[BAT31]

Anyone who's actually been exposed to traumatic shit and wasn't impacted in some way is probably somewhere on the antisocial personality disorder spectrum.

PTSD over Facebook postings? Yep, Millennials. Talk to me when people have seen traumatic shit in real time (i.e., on the mean and squalid streets, or in a war zone), not Facebook postings.

Facebook postings? Really?

 

[Sig]

PTSD over Facebook postings? Yep, Millennials. Talk to me when people have seen traumatic shit in real time (i.e., on the mean and squalid streets, or in a war zone), not Facebook postings.

Facebook postings? Really?

So you think a psychologically normal human being who is forced to watch child porn for 8 hours a day for a month should emerge from that with no impact whatsoever? After all, it's just a video, it's not the "squalid streets" or a "war zone"? How long did you serve again, by the way?

Again, that's pretty clearly on the antisocial personality disorder spectrum to think simply because something is online it will have no psychological impact. Or more likely a naive kid who hasn't actually been exposed to some of the worst of humanity.

 

[JesseJamesFinn1]

PTSD over Facebook postings? Yep, Millennials. Talk to me when people have seen traumatic shit in real time (i.e., on the mean and squalid streets, or in a war zone), not Facebook postings.

Facebook postings? Really?

Facebook live postings of kids killing themselves or seeing kittens and puppies cut up or deep fried. Vice did a piece on what the Mods saw, your not getting the whole story. My B.I.L came back from Vietnam, saw his best friend blown to pieces with parts on him. He was told he suffered from '"Shell Shock" and to "Tough it up, real men don't get stressed"!