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A woman who was working as a content moderator for Facebook is suing the tech giant, saying that Facebook has not adequately protected her from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by violent graphic images that her work was imposing on her. .
The lawsuit, filed Friday in California State Court in San Mateo County, seeks to obtain class action status, said the woman's lawyer.
"Facebook ignores its duty to provide a safe workplace and instead creates a revolving door of entrepreneurs who are irreparably traumatized by what they've seen on the job," said Korey Nelson, of the law firm. Burns Charest.
The lawsuit claims that Facebook has developed labor security standards to protect content moderators from the graphical content they have been instructed to remove from the platform, but that it ignores these standards with respect to its own contractors . "Instead, the multibillion dollar society requires its content moderators to work under conditions known to cause and exacerbate psychological trauma," the complaint said.
The complainant, Selena Scola, testified that she was a Facebook content moderator employed by the Pro Unlimited contracting company for nine months starting last June. As part of her work, she was allegedly subjected to "videos, images and programs broadcast on children, rapes, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicides and murders", according to the trial . She was officially diagnosed with PTSD at an indeterminate time, and asked Facebook to create a medical follow-up fund to treat patients with PTSD.
A Facebook spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is a story in development.
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