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Re:Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin by th0br0 on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:03PM (#16254126)
Note that Facebook has outsourced the moderation to an external company (Arvato Bertelsmann) and isn't employing these people themselves.
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Re:Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin by zeeed on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:39PM (#16254286)
How exactly does that make the job any better?
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Re:Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin by cleansy on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:49PM (#16254336)
If anything, it makes the job worse by an order of magnitude. Arvato Bertelsmann is famous for bad working conditions. For example: circumventing minimum wage by (de facto) requiring unpaid over hours. They write into the contracts that you only need to work Mon-Fri but in reality they even ask you to show up for work sundays, christmas or whenever they feel like it. If you don't comply, they show you the door. Illegal yes, but with minimum wage you usually can't expense the time or money to sue them.
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Re:Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin by lrem on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:44PM (#16254314)
This setup is to protect the company, not the workers.
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