Ex-Facebook moderator sues over workplace trauma
An ex-Facebook employee has sued the social media giant for failing to protect moderators who view disturbing content. Exposure to images of child abuse and gruesome killings had caused PTSD, the former staffer said. Internet giant Facebook is facing a potential class-action lawsuit in the United States for allegedly failing to protect moderators who have to view disturbing content including beheadings and sexual abuse. Selena Scola, a former content moderator and contract employee, suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after taking a job at Facebook in June 2017 for a nine-month period, said her law firm Burns Charest on Monday. The lawsuit, filed in a California court on Friday, alleges that she and others were bombarded daily with thousands of "videos, images and livestreamed broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide and murder." "Facebook is ignoring its duty to provide a safe workplace and instead creating a revo...
