( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “wouldn’t have to.” Nearly 200 former content moderators for Facebook are suing the company and a local contractor in a court case in Kenya that could have implications for the work worldwide. [CutID: <Cuts> FACEBOOK-KENYA-house-q-THUam.mp3 Time: 20s Title: FACEBOOK-KENYA-house-q-THUam Out-cue: wouldn’t have to] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. […]
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Facebook content moderators in Kenya call the work ‘torture’
( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “wouldn’t have to.”
Nearly 200 former content moderators for Facebook are suing the company and a local contractor in a court case in Kenya that could have implications for the work worldwide.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.
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VERBATIM: They are the first known moderators outside the U-S to lodge such a complaint. The former employees from several African countries allege poor working conditions including low pay and insufficient mental health support. They say they are haunted by the graphic videos and other content they watched so the rest of the world wouldn’t have to.