{"id":11493,"date":"2023-09-11T05:38:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T03:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/i-log-into-a-torture-chamber-each-day-the-strain-of-moderating-social-media\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T05:38:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T03:38:24","slug":"i-log-into-a-torture-chamber-each-day-the-strain-of-moderating-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/i-log-into-a-torture-chamber-each-day-the-strain-of-moderating-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I log into a torture chamber each day\u2019: the strain of moderating social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing \u2018gore\u2019 to clean up the web has traumatised moderators<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I had to watch every frame of a recent stabbing video \u2026 It will never leave me,\u201d says Harun*, one of many moderators reviewing harmful online content in India, as social media companies increasingly move the challenging work offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Moderators working in Hyderabad, a major IT hub in south Asia, have spoken of the strain on their mental health of reviewing images and videos of sexual and violent content, sometimes including trafficked children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/sep\/11\/i-log-into-a-torture-chamber-each-day-strain-of-moderating-social-media-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6debf0b6b0bed8f22d9a96e508b9b626a736e291\/0_110_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5c6aa9bb30c1894dbbbe8b32aa835eb1\" title=\"\u2018I log into a torture chamber each day\u2019: the strain of moderating social media\" \/>As jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing \u2018gore\u2019 to clean up the web has traumatised moderators<br \/>\n\u2018I had to watch every frame of a recent stabbing video \u2026 It will never leave me,\u201d says Harun*, one of many moderators reviewing harmful online content in India, as social media companies increasingly move the challenging work offshore.<br \/>\nModerators working in Hyderabad, a major IT hub in south Asia, have spoken of the strain on their mental health of reviewing images and videos of sexual and violent content, sometimes including trafficked children. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing \u2018gore\u2019 to clean up the web has traumatised moderators \u2018I had to watch every frame of a recent stabbing video \u2026 It will never leave me,\u201d says Harun*, one of many moderators reviewing harmful online content in India, as social media companies &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/i-log-into-a-torture-chamber-each-day-the-strain-of-moderating-social-media\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I log into a torture chamber each day\u2019: the strain of moderating social media<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}