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Facebook to Pay $52 Million Settlement to Content Moderators with PTSD
breitbart ^ | 05/13/2020 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 05/13/2020 10:47:11 AM PDT by DFG

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To: DFG

I guess Zuckerberg thought it was cheaper to throw money at these snowflakes than win the case.


21 posted on 05/13/2020 11:16:08 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Flavious_Maximus
How can someone possibly get Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from just seeing images?

I don't think most of us can even begin to imagine what sorts of sick, twisted things people try to get past the mod's at social media sites. I recall hearing about some absolute horror stories back when this first surfaced.

22 posted on 05/13/2020 11:17:17 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (This space vacant until further notice in compliance with social distancing 'guidelines')
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To: DFG
Hopefully there won't be such lawsuits on FR.


23 posted on 05/13/2020 11:17:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: DFG
The snowflake factor seems to be intensifying, especially when there is money involved. And these are the idiot children who have quietly been gaining power to shape the narrative. We really are in trouble.
24 posted on 05/13/2020 11:18:16 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized)
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To: texas booster

Typically 50% to the lawyers and coupon vouchers to the affected persons.


25 posted on 05/13/2020 11:19:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: DFG

Buying pacifiers, coloring books and crayons would have been a lot cheaper.


26 posted on 05/13/2020 11:20:23 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: unixfox

I was on a grand jury that indicted a woman for microwaving her baby, you’ll see nothing worse than that, where’s my money?


27 posted on 05/13/2020 11:20:55 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

No, and the article is misleading, to claim it is political stuff.

99.99% of the complaints were regarding perversion, generally snuff films and child pornography.

I’d be traumatized by that garbage, too.


28 posted on 05/13/2020 11:22:01 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: unixfox

I have read about this. Watching numerous videos of animals being tortured and other truly vile stuff. Just finished a book by an on-site reporter who covered the numerous transcaucasus wars after the CCCP collapsed. His last reporting was Beslan school atrack. After years of observing and reporting senseless violence and death in 3d world crapholes he called it quits.


29 posted on 05/13/2020 11:22:04 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: DFG

Sounds like a great job. You get to act like God about the dispensing of opinion and knowledge, and then get a bonus for the stress.


30 posted on 05/13/2020 11:27:37 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: DFG

Back in the unenlighted days of text based internet news groups did the moderators get Bourne shell shock instead of PTSD?


31 posted on 05/13/2020 1:07:35 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parachutes are only anecdotally effective due to the lack of significant double blind testing.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Hopefully there won’t be such lawsuits on FR.”

Apparently not. I showed that pic you posted to my lawyer to see if I had a case and now HE is suing ME! :-)


32 posted on 05/13/2020 1:35:46 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: DFG

Stress, trauma are occupational hazards of this job. Wouldn’t it take special training and maybe some professional or spiritual support to do this sort of work?


33 posted on 05/13/2020 3:09:47 PM PDT by Marchmain (safe, legal and wrong)
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