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A former content moderator on Facebook has sued the company for post-traumatic stress disorder that she said she experienced after being exposed to disturbing images. Alexander Koerner / Getty Images

An old content moderator for Facebook has sued the social media company after alleged that she had developed post-traumatic stress disorder after being exposed to videos, images and broadcasts of sexual violence, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicides and murders .

The main plaintiff, Selena Scola, of San Francisco, worked for the entrepreneur Pro Unlimited, Inc., which helps Facebook remove content that violates community standards between June 2017 and March 2018. She claims to have been exposed to extremely disturbing images in the workplace ", which led to the development of PTSD.

The trial, Scola v. Facebook Inc. and Pro Unlimited Inc., which was filed on September 21st in California state court to San Mateo County, claims that content moderators are not properly protected. "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 LLP. Yahoo finance.

The lawsuit says Facebook does not provide enough health services or training methods to prepare or care for employees who moderate content posted by more than 2 billion global users of the platform.

"Mrs. Scola's PTSD symptoms can be triggered when she touches a computer mouse, enters a cold building, watches television violence, hears loud noises or States. "Her symptoms are also triggered when she remembers or describes graphic images to which she has been exposed as a moderator of the content."

Facebook has about 7,500 content moderators around the world charged with suppressing hate speech, graphic violence, images and videos containing self-destruction, nudity and sexual content, bullying and other content violating its content. policies.

"We're not just exposed to graphic videos – you'll have to watch them closely, often repeatedly, for specific policy-makers," said a source at Vice's Motherboard.

The Scola lawsuit asks the court to create a "Facebook-funded medical monitoring program" to provide testing and care to content moderators with PTSD.