“There are surely some content moderators that haven't suffered mental health problems connected to the job, but I haven't met them,” says sociologist and computer scientist Milagros Miceli, who has studied the content moderation industry for the past six years. “I have no doubt that content moderation, like coal mining, is a hazardous job.” Coal mining, known for the proliferation of ‘black lung disease', is a classic example of a hazardous job, but there are only approximately 200,000 coal (…)
We have a company in Oklahoma that moderates tiltok they get a 30 minute wellbeing time period. Including their regular breaks. But they see sone pretty fucked up shit. Just saying it’s not just overseas people we make to do this stuff.