Facebook outsources screening of gruesome, cruel videos, to a sick sweatshop where workers suffer PTSD and other effects of horrifying work under terrible conditions. How does that square with the social media giant’s happy mission of uniting people around the world? And if violent videos of animal abuse pass the rigorous screening, why is it so hard for limited-government conservatives to get their message out.
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Facebook Sweatshop Scandal: Staff Suffers PTSD Screening Gruesome, Cruel Videos
Facebook outsources screening of gruesome, cruel videos, to a sick sweatshop where workers suffer PTSD and other effects of horrifying work under terrible conditions. How does that square with the social media giant’s happy mission of uniting people around the world? And if violent videos of animal abuse pass the rigorous screening, why is it so hard for limited-government conservatives to get their message out.
16 replies on “Facebook Sweatshop Scandal: Staff Suffers PTSD Screening Gruesome, Cruel Videos”
I think Bill missed the real play at work here. I have seen this kind of accusation of terrible working conditions many times before and it is ALWAYS coming from a union trying to organize the employees somewhere. It is a boilerplate item from their playbook to make such accusations.
Some union looked at the massive power that resides in whoever controls social media censorship and essentially said “I want that control for myself.” and so they break out the standard playbook for gaining control over the specific employees that do the censoring. To me this seems as plain as day.
Huh. I used to work for MySpace. It was a pretty chill place. Low stress except for my idiot boss.
Facebook is just a new version of Life log.
Life log was a DOD/DARPA program cancelled because of the invasion of privacy problems it would create. On 2/4/04, the same day Life log was cancelled, Facebook was launched. Some of the same people who ran Life log now work for Facebook.
By the way, it wouldn’t matter if you cancelled your Facebook account.
None of the server-side copies of the information you upload ever get deleted.
I wouldn’t have a Facebook account if they paid me a thousand dollars a day to do it.
Have we now reached the point thAt going to a “Safe pace is no longer “safe” and we MUST create a “Safe Pace” for a non-“safe space?”
All of this talk by Scott Ott and many commenters claiming to have abandoned social media, seem to forget that YouTube qualifies as a social media platform. It matters not if you removed all the apps from your phones and computers, the web browser that you may be using is the most obvious conduit to social media sites. Just saying…
Please don’t misunderstand my intent with this comment, I think the the most significant thing that is lacking is individual responsibility in the usage of such tools. If an individual cannot exercise some restraint in his activities, then such an individual is likely the victim of an addiction. Unfortunately, the “second hand smoke” emitted by this addiction, has the potential to be more widespread than any known carcinogen.
When you started talking, Bill, I thought you were joking. But as the conversation progressed, all I could think about where images of the demon scenes in the movie Constantine or the vampire bar scenes in the movie From Dusk till Dawn. I’m not sure what the world expected with the creation of Facebook created by a group of college boys wanting to pick up women. Basically Facebook has its roots in college pornography and pick up lines. Evil behavior begets evil results. We should expect nothing less.
Working in IT is very very different depending on who you work for and the actual job you are expected to do. From my experience it can be very very stressful when you have someone making demands of you on a subject they barely understand. It only becomes more stressful when people graduating college expect to hold a job and still do not know how to operate the computer they have been using the whole time to get their degree.
And like so many positions, if you show competence in a particular area, you are overworked to cover the complete incompetence of the rest of the staff.
BTW, are employers still demanding to see your social media account to be hired? (I have been employed at the same place for 20 years so I have no idea what employers even are looking for in candidates today)
who on earth would ever want to have been on Facebook, etc. My PhD engineer son used to have a black T-shirt with very large white letters saying “no I am not on f******g Facebook”. And I was so proud of him. And then they bought LinkdIn…!!!
Classmates.com is still around.
Yes, it is, and it continues to annoy the snot out of me with it spam email.
Same here…
More audio issues for Steve? There’s a low frequency rumble when he’s talking. Or am I hearing things?
I heard same thing, started last week… air conditioner?
I’ve asked our video editor to isolate the audio tracks and try to determine the source. The California studio does have a known HVAC system hum, but perhaps this is something else. Thank you.
just doing our best to be Member Producers!
I know this isn’t TSL, but still…
for the animal cruelty videos and such, instead of a “report” button that sends a note to moderators, instead sends it to the police. That would certainly cut down on a lot of the worst content. If people who know the fiends they follow turned them in, they’d be less able to create and share the evidence of their crimes.
Apple hasn’t left Saudia Arabia but they’re leaving Georgia.
I remember a study or survey of young people that came up with the same idea Bill mentioned (what I think of as 15 minutes of fame in 5 second increments) that the peer pressure of getting likes, retweets, friends and followers puts so much pressure on the young that they’re less happy and more stressed than ever.