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Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by eswat on Saturday May 27, 2017 @11:41PM (#14432992)
The low wage isn’t surprising given the typical take-home pay in the Philippines. But it’s a force multiplier in depressing work when they have to filter through a lot of material that’s potentially traumatizing to a moderate Filipino that’s probably not mentally fit to handle this.
Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by pmorici on Sunday May 28, 2017 @01:36AM (#14433214)
Frankly the amount of traumatizing material they are exposed to is probably pretty low. They aren't watching this materiel start to finish by the articles own admission they only have a few seconds to make a judgement. 99% of terrorist propaganda videos can be spotted by only watching the first few frames of video. They all have the same music / tone / symbolism.
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Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by Gigablah on Sunday May 28, 2017 @12:45AM (#14433121)
That's like reading this thread [1] and coming to the conclusion that America is a hellhole.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/26mhbl/americans...

Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by threeseed on Sunday May 28, 2017 @12:37AM (#14433112)
Not sure if you've been to Phillipines but it's a pretty unusual country. According to Wikipedia there are over 2000 inhabited islands so the regional differences are quite stark.

Blanket statements like this don't make much sense.

Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by dirtylowprofile on Sunday May 28, 2017 @01:21AM (#14433184)
I've been here for 31 years. Yet to see violence and dead bodies in person. I don't know where you got this. You need to stop reading news, get the fuck out of your chair and come here.
Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by kevingadd on Sunday May 28, 2017 @12:05AM (#14433042)
Based on that logic we should outsource this work to Syrian refugees. C'mon, think a bit harder before posting. :(

This sort of content is troubling for anyone to be exposed to - that's the whole reason why Facebook has to filter it. How can you possibly justify it by saying someone should already be desensitized? To child porn? Beheadings?