Facebook to Pay $52 Million Settlement to Content Moderators with PTSD

breitbart ^ | 05/13/2020 | Lucas Nolan

[DFG]

Tech giant Facebook will reportedly be paying a settlement of $52 million to thousands of current and former content moderators who developed PTSD after viewing and removing graphic and disturbing posts on the social media platform.

NPR reports that according to a settlement agreement announced on Tuesday between tech giant Facebook and lawyers for former Facebook content moderators. Mark Zuckerberg’s company will be paying $52 million to thousands of workers affected by the content they were forced to view and remove from Facebook.

[Lurkinanloomin]

This is not Babylon Bee?

[Menehune56]

The insanity is accelerating.

[Deaf Smith]

Is it really TDS that ails them?

[KSCITYBOY]

Btt

[subterfuge]

“Forced?” Must have twisted their arms.

[Oneanddone]

I got PTSD just reading about this story...where’s my money?

[Starcitizen]

That’s why Facebook moved most moderation to India or other 3rd-world shitholes.

[DesertRhino]

Pussies. “PTSD” from what you saw on a computer screen.

[Leep]

Did they see Hillary naked or Mich’s penis?

[Steve_Seattle]

"This is not Babylon Bee?"

Beat me to it. PTSD typically refers to an anxiety response stemming from some actual life-threatening experience, such as occur in military, police, or criminal situations. I've never heard of it in this kind of context, where there is no actual threat to the people involved.

[SunkenCiv]

Partisan Media Shills update.

[Zathras]

Decoder Ring: Trannys stressed by looking at normal intimacy.

[Flavious_Maximus]

How can someone possibly get Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from just seeing images?

Are snowflakes really that sensitive? How will they cope when Trump wins a second term?

[CJ Wolf]

they actually had to remove the contents of wieners laptop. That had to be horrible.

[rktman]

Oh, did the daisies wilt under the weight of snowflakery. FFS! Can’t make this stuff up.

“What’s your condition?”

“I have PTSD.”

“Oh were you in A-stan or Iraq?”

“No, I was a mod at facebook.”

“Okay, here’s some valium.”

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Irrespective of this lawsuit, I have a friend who polices criminal images on YouTube. I can’t even repeat the things she’s she’s seen regarding babies, children, and animals. Thank God for monitors who can take that on with the compassion it deserves.

[Leep]

That alone must have made up about half of the 52 million settlement.

[texas booster]

Mark Zuckerberg’s company will be paying $52 million to thousands of workers affected by the content they were forced to view and remove from Facebook.

More than 10,000 content moderators who worked for Facebook from sites in four U.S. states will each be eligible to receive $1,000 in cash. Any of those moderators that are now diagnosed with psychological conditions related to heir work as Facebook moderators can have medical treatment covered and may be entitled to as much as $50,000 per person.

First, anyone that has ever worked in a photo lab can relate to pics that just should not exist. From law enforcement to citizens operating on the edge, some stuff just had to get developed. One reason that cities created in-house film processing and then went digital.

Same type of lawsuit that MS settled a year or so ago.

But of the $52 million, how much is guaranteed to go to the workers (minimum $1,000 each) and how much to the lawyers?

[unixfox]

How can someone possibly get Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from just seeing images?

Depends on what it is. Like a mangled body. You don't ever want to see that. Ever.