Things like this bother me.....why insist upon 6 day weeks, what difference does it make to Facebook really, compared to just hiring a few more people? It's almost like they're not happy unless their employees are unhappy.

If its like the outsourced firms I've worked with at my employers, unless you make specific clauses in your contract about how the employees of your contractor will be treated, the managers of these would just pocket any money given to treat the employees better and continue on as normal

I have no frame of reference for that pay. Is the pay low or normal? Is the main issue the required 6 days/week?

The pay is decent enough. But the job description for a kid straight out of college, filtering disturbing videos is not something I would recommend. And imagine doing this for 6 days per week with a quota. And you get fired for not getting the quota.

This terror, fake news, live disturbing videos has been going on for Facebook for years now, I think they should have developed some kind of machine learning to at least detect and reduce a sort of percentage than get this fresh college kids to filter them. Instead they prioritize releasing new emotions stickers and transforming their messenger to a Snapchat clone.

What makes you say they don't have any automated filters?

They have hundreds, probably more than a thousand developers, pretty sure they can work on content filters and emotion stickers simultaneously.

I think if they do have automations, they wouldn't outsource it here to us. Plus employing an additional 3,000 is not giving me any belief that they do have some filtering mechanisms.

They definitely do and are working on it. But it's not perfect and eventually you need human judgement. Even if it's just for the initial data training set.

I'm sympathetic, but saying that working six days a week (which MANY Americans do) is "modern slavery" seems like quite a stretch.

Compare wages, living conditions, and working conditions.

Intentional hyperbole: being forced into wage slavery in order to afford basic food and clean drinking water is a little different than taking a driverless car to the Googleplex on a Saturday morning for free breakfast and a game of ping pong.

But why compare to America ? To MANY, It's not the best country to live in. Plus, what good is having modern job in a modern world that sucks up so much time for work ? Can't we get a bit of the good parts of the Star Trek utopia :) ?

We're not America. Some may work the same as 6 day work week, but still our rate is like 1/12 of how much you guys own in an hour. Shit, some gringos even asked me $400 to have them develop an app for them. That is like one day for an engineer from Silicon Valley.