May 13, 2020 | Facebook Moderators, Social Media Moderators
In a preliminary settlement filed on Friday in San Mateo Superior Court (California), Facebook agreed to pay $52 million to current and former moderators to compensate them for psychological trauma that they suffered as part of their role. This groundbreaking ruling...
Apr 5, 2020 | Facebook Moderators, Social Media Moderators
Social media giant Facebook is facing a number of legal actions around the world from those employed, through third party groups, to moderate the content that is posted to its platform Content moderator providers including hired by service providers including CPL...
Mar 23, 2020 | Facebook Moderators, Social Media Moderators
Technology publication The Verge is reporting that a settlement is close in the United States in a legal action taken by a group of Facebook content moderators against the social media platform due to the conditions of their work. The legal action began when, in late...
Feb 27, 2020 | Facebook Moderators, Social Media Moderators
A former Facebook content moderator, who is currently taking a legal action against the social media platform, has revealed in an interview with the Irish Times the dreadful work he had to carry out as part of his position and the serious psychological trauma it...
Feb 12, 2020 | Facebook Moderators, Social Media Moderators, YouTube Moderators
Sarah T. Roberts, an assistant professor of information studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (Yale) recently launched her latest work Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of...
Feb 7, 2020 | Facebook Moderators, Social Media Moderators
With the recent submission of a number of Facebook Moderator compensation claims in the United States and Ireland, the suffering that these content moderators go through has come into sharp focus. The disturbing nature of the content that they must view and the...
