Facebook will pay $52 million in a settlement for failing to protect its moderators. A court case alleged the company failed to protect its moderators from the mental health impacts of their job. Moderators will get a minimum of $1,000 each from Facebook, as The Guardian details:
As part of the settlement, which was announced Tuesday, moderators will get a minimum of $1,000 each from Facebook with the potential for additional compensation if they have been diagnosed with mental health disorders, including PTSD.
Moderators, who are generally contracted by third-party firms, are constantly exposed to graphic content including child sexual abuse, beheadings, terrorism, animal cruelty, and “every other horror that the depraved mind of man can imagine”, Steve Williams, a lawyer for the plantiffs, told the Guardian.
Workers may be eligible for additional damage awards of up to $50,000, lawyers for the plaintiffs said, and Facebook will change a number of policies to better address mental health.
More than 11,000 people who have worked as moderators for Facebook in California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida from 2015 until now will qualify for compensation under the settlement.
image via The Guardian
Newest 2 Comments
To be fair facebook is the most uninteresting, self-important, immoral, useless place in their entire cosmos.
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)
This is a good thing but I feel sorry that people keep putting out terrible things that force us to have to pay people to moderate the internet to protect us all. Thank you to the brave people who moderate facebook for keeping us all relatively safe from the worst types of people in the world. You deserve better.
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)