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‘The work damaged me’: ex-Facebook moderators describe effect of horrific content | Former workers at Samasource say violent, graphic and sexually explicit videos left them fearful to go outside
Former workers at Samasource say violent, graphic and sexually explicit videos left them fearful to go outside
“I remember one day when I logged in to see a child with their stomach torn wide open, suffering but not dead,” the Kenyan national told the Guardian. She went from being the kind of person who would host friends at every occasion to barely leaving her house, crying at the deaths of people she did not know to feeling numb and mentally troubled, sometimes battling suicidal thoughts. “The work damaged me, I could never go back to it,” said the woman , who hopes that the case will have impacts on the content moderation industry in Africa, as global demand for such services grows.
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