What do you think of the article? https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa
We talk a lot about this. It's sad but whatchugonnado?
It’s distressing. Conditions are inexcusably bad. Alas, someone’s gotta do it. So reporting like this can help put pressure on companies to improve the situation. It’ll also dissuade people from maybe pursuing the jobs, and hopefully they’ll know what they’re actually interviewing for. It’s also interesting how many STEM-type jobs exist that go unfilled, which suggests that nobody is sentenced to doing work like this. Is it unreasonable to say that if you focus on learning things and work your ass off, you could find better work? Maybe not some 250k TC role at FAANG, but something better than this?
What’s funny is that Facebook was pressured into doing this in the first place. An ideal Social Network would not have to do third party content moderation. Determining post quality should be between me and my friends. It’s easy. Stop trying to preemptively police speech on Facebook. Let likes and reports do their job for removing exploitive posts. If you lose some advertisers and get blasted in the press, and it hurts your stock, and some employees leave, so what. Is that what Facebook is for? Just to have a high stock price and flatter politicians? The idea that governments are going to shut down Facebook because of Russian misinformation is a bluff. Facebook shouldn’t change its product under duress.
I see where you’re coming from, but I’m guessing that if they didn’t moderate content there’s a fear it’d turn into 4chan or something like that. But uh...I think if you asked Sandberg, she’d say that Facebook is all about having a high stock price!
2024 Presidential Election
Yesterday
215
Canceling debt isn’t inflationary or costing tax payers
Personal Finance
Yesterday
1860
Thank you AAPL and NVDA
Tech Industry
2d
8775
What happens when most of your team is Indian?
World Conflicts
4h
250
Peaceful Protest Hasn’t Worked and Has Been Met With Aggression.
Today I Learned
Yesterday
1570
White male privilege is real
Content moderation is shit job and Cognizant is a shit place.