Posted on 12/28/2021 1:06:21 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A content moderator for TikTok is suing the company, claiming that she suffered psychological trauma after “constant” exposure to violent videos that showed sexual assault, beheadings, suicide, and other graphic content.
Candie Frazier’s lawsuit against the social media giant claims that the company did not protect her while she was forced to work shifts as long as 12 hours each day reviewing graphic content, The Washington Post reported.
The suit alleges that Frazier and other moderators would review “extreme and graphic violence,” including videos of “genocide in Myanmar, mass shootings, children being raped, and animals being mutilated.”
The moderators worked to filter out that type of content from being viewed by TikTok users, according to the suit. In federal court in California last week, legal action was filed against the platform and its parent company, ByteDance.
In her lawsuit, Frazier claims that she developed “significant psychological trauma including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder” after being exposed to the videos.
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Perhaps social media needs to team up with law enforcement to track down these sociopaths posting videos of their crimes instead of wasting everyone's time exposing racism.
I have a friend who is now with Israeli Intelligence, who took a job screening content for YouTube. As mentally strong as she is (and was trained to be), the job still traumatized her.
I am a very low level user of “social media”, limited to looking at a couple Twitter accounts, and a handful of Instagram accounts, which are mostly those of relatives.
But there is a TikTok poster in my daughter-in-law’s family who has recently posted some critical bits about having to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend’s rowdy nieces (which are my granddaughters, who are not rowdy). And then then something the person posted about being bisexual and so tempted to cheat on her boyfriend (who is the brother of my daughter-in-law).
All of this has resulted in MASSIVE drama in the family, with everyone taking sides, and the TikTok supporters trying to convince everyone else that it is not “serious” and is just for the “likes”. While everyone else is shocked and offended that the TikTok poster seems to be so controversial, and in opposition to the boyfriend and his family.
And they could not get together for Christmas, and the mother is so upset, and the siblings are encamped in their “sides”, and it is very painful to witness.
My main issue is that I simply do not understand why people would post potentially hurtful videos, “just for the ‘likes’”. If someone can explain that, I will try to comprehend it.
First off quit the job. No one is forcing you unless you’re a slave to the Chinese in which case you wouldn’t be able to sue.
Second, just who in the hell is posting these videos and are they being turned over to law enforcement or someone?
So your friend's a censor, promoting cancel culture?
I remember when Amazon, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook were all about anything goes!
Then Trump tweeted himself into the White House (helped by supporters on YouTube, Facebook, Amazon. etc.), and Big Tech began deplatforming all wrongthink.
they are addicted to attention, attention is their drug- They don’t feel self confident or positive about themselves unless they get lots of likes-
I thought social media sites outsourced those jobs to third world countries for pennies a day.
Having to view content like that, one real-life horror after another, on and on, for 12-hour stretches, day after day, would send even the most psychologically healthy person over the edge. It is insanely inhumane to ask anyone to do that.
Yet this job must be done to prevent these ghastly horrors from being available for viewing by the public on these platforms. I don’t know what the answer is, but requiring anyone to do this full time is about as “cruel and unusual” as it gets. Someone doing that job sees more horror in an hour than first responders, LE and even active military see in a war zone see in a month or more (likely more). On top of that, unlike first responders who can take action to help the wounded, or in the case of LE to put a stop to it or lock up the guilty — there is nothing these people can do about the horrors, which adds to the trauma.
As the OP pointed out, LE really should be involved, or at least cases referred to them. There is nothing they can do about massacres in Burma or beheadings in some Muslim country, but it sounds like there is plenty they should be looking into.
Social media is a net negative for the human race.
I can imagine. Sick, sick people our there. ☹
Once upon a time, you had a local kid shooting cats, that kid wound up in a special school or regular counseling. Now they're video taping their perversions for popularity and aren't being held to account for their actions.
The death of personal responsibility continues apace.
You either didn't bother to read the article, or don't understand the subject matter, or are just extraordinarily presumptuous and stupid. Take your 97 point IQ elsewhere.
Videos are posted from all over the world. Good luck trying to get the Pakistani police to investigate a beheading.
Excellent, thoughtful, and insightful point, CH. I can’t imagine lasting one shift, doing that.
There shouldn’t be any surprises for someone taking that line of work. All that smut is freely available on the internet. They can preview the job anytime they wish.
As I said in my first post we need to be more concerned about the people creating this content and catching them and prosecuting them than exposing "racist" content.
And trust me on this. Pray you never stumble upon one of these videos.
International laws aside, the job should be those who are psychologically predisposed to handle it. Eg; Sociopaths and psychopaths. People who are already either numb to the human condition or are actively attracted to the darker aspects of being animals on this planet.
Sounds dark, sounds wrong, sounds like the exact opposite of what we should be doing... But it’d work.
The problem is that with social media, you can be a freak and post any warped thought, and you’ll literally get thousands of people who will affirm your warped views.
Go on YouTube to any video about Nazis, half the comments will be people praising Hitler, and getting likes.
Yeah, and it wouldn't "be a surprise" to a trained member of Israeli Yamam. The point is how brutal it was to someone like her with such elite training. As you alluded, if anyone wants a taste of what she saw, they can search images with the keywords "China boil dog meat market". (Of course, there will be a handful of zero sum thinkers here who will say "yeah, but Google abortion pictures!!!!" - but I'm digressing... )
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