Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator
(The Guardian Germany)

Exclusive: Job has left some `addicted´ to extreme material and pushed others to far rightThe task of moderating Facebook continues to leave psychological scars on the company´s employees, months after efforts to improve conditions for the company´s thousands of contractors, the Guardian has learned.A group of current and former contractors who worked for years at the social network´s Berlin-based moderation centres has reported witnessing colleagues become `addicted` to graphic content and hoarding ever more extreme examples for a personal collection. They also said others were pushed towards the far right by the amount of hate speech and fake news they read every day. Continue reading...