Facebook moderator, a hell? A former employee tells

Not easy the job of Facebook moderator. This is horror, even if we believe Sarah Katz's testimony
Business Insider, this Monday. The 27-year-old American worked as a moderator for Vertisystem, a Facebook outsourcing company, and badyzed content posted by users. She was then responsible for determining whether or not these posts were in contravention of the rules of the social network.

"A monotonous job after a while"

Everyday life? The review of 8,000 posts scrolling on his screen at a rate of one message every ten seconds. Pressure. "Facebook has billions of users, many of whom do not know how to use the platform," says Sarah Katz at Business Insider . Suddenly, there are many images of badgraphy, zoophilia, violence … "

And the American to remember the images pedo-badgraphic regularly appearing among the posts to be treated. "The image could be deleted and then go back to a different account," says Katz. One day from Pakistan, another day from the United States. "It's a monotonous job after a while," says Katz again. And you end up being desensitized to this type of image because you see too much.

Like the other Facebook moderators, the young woman had signed a document stating that she would see potentially disturbing images and that she should quickly notify the company if she did not support it and wanted to stop. [19659003] Thousands of moderators like Sarah Katz

Facebook employed 4,500 moderators like Sarah Katz last year, recalls Business Insider. And in May 2017, after a series of
 murders broadcast live on the social network, the US giant had expressed its willingness to engage
3.000 other moderators to help him find prohibited content on his platform

The battle intensifies, however, as Facebook posts are more numerous, says Mashable website. In a report published in May, Facebook said it had "acted" on 3.4 million posts in three months, 1.2 million more than between October and the end of December.

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