‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma::More than 20% of the staff Meta hired to check the violent content of Facebook and Instagram are on sick leave due to psychological trauma.

  • Doctor xNo
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    -551 year ago

    Pretty sure that if you get to see a lot of “Violent Content” on your Facebook, you’re either following the wrong groups or have wrong friends who you chose to allow to (or you’re specifically looking it up 😅). If there’s anything Facebook is good at, it’s at keeping people cosy in their selective information bubble. I myself have maybe had 5 posts that actually had shocking content I rather not had seen in the 14 years I was on Facebook, and I think most of them by the same 1 person that I eventually asked to exclude me if they post stuff alike… 😅

    Not gonna argue that visual shock trauma isn’t a thing, it surely is! (I have sadly collected a small (mind-)museum of those in my lifetime myself.) Nor am I gonna claim Facebook “isn’t that bad”, it definitely is too! But this just has moneyfishing written all over it.

    👴🏼 Oh, well,… Back in my day, when we saw something that would scar us for life, we’d immediately call as many friends possible to come look at it too… 👴🏼 😅

    • @[email protected]
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      281 year ago

      This is about the people who have to check if this stuff is violating the rules, not users who happened to see it

      • Doctor xNo
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        -21 year ago

        In my defense, I was pretty drunk when I commented this…

        Don’t drink and Lemmy… 😅

    • Zoidsberg
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      171 year ago

      Did you read the article or just skim the headline?

      • Doctor xNo
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        -21 year ago

        No, I read the headline and skimmed the article. 😅

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      • @SomeSphinx
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        31 year ago

        Idk why this was downvoted, this is pretty obvious sarcasm.

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