Claire Wilmot

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Hall |Claire Wilmot

Meta is facing a second set of lawsuits in Africa over the psychological distress experienced by content moderators employed to take down disturbing social media content including depictions of murders, extreme violence and child sexual abuse. Lawyers are gearing up for court action against a company contracted by Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, after meeting moderators at a facility in Ghana that is understood to employ about 150 people.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Hall |Claire Wilmot

When Solomon* strode into the gleaming Octagon tower in Accra, Ghana, for his first day as a Meta content moderator, he was bracing himself for difficult but fulfilling work, purging social media of harmful content. But after just two weeks of training, the scale and depravity of what he was exposed to was far darker than he ever imagined. “The first day I didn’t come across any graphic content, but gradually I started coming across very graphic content like beheadings, child abuse, bestiality.