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Facebook Content Moderators Routinely Traumatized by Violent Content: Report

NIGHTMARE

Staffers say they’ve developed PTSD-like symptoms, and are paid only $28,000 per year.

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Facebook content moderators at an Arizona contractor—the people tasked with sorting through each piece of content reported on the platform to determine if it violates the company’s guidelines—have suffered serious mental-health issues and are subject to an extremely restrictive workplace culture, according to a Monday report from The Verge.

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