Niamh McIntyre
Tech Reporter at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
tech reporter @tbij, formerly @guardian/@pulitzercenter not on here v often! find me on LinkedIn/ niamhbamcintyre on insta /contact me at [email protected]
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6 days ago |
thebureauinvestigates.com | Niamh McIntyre
Isis members using a severed head as a football, someone wearing a flayed face like a mask, a person being covered in petrol and set alight. These are just a handful of the videos I’ve heard content moderators describe in my role as Big Tech reporter at TBIJ. The images conjured up by the interviews have been difficult for me to forget – let alone for the workers who had to see them first-hand. Content moderators are the invisible cogs in the vast machinery of Big Tech.
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2 months ago |
independent.co.uk | Andrew Griffin |Niamh McIntyre
Moderators watch vast amounts of troubling posts to try and keep apps safeWorkers who were required to watch deeply disturbing videos on TikTok say they were fired after trying to unionise. The workers were employed as Telus Digital, a Canadian company that provides outsourcing services for TikTok as well as others such as Facebook parent company Meta.
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Oct 11, 2024 |
thebureauinvestigates.com | Niamh McIntyre
TikTok plans to slash the UK team that protects users from harmful content, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. At least 125 people who work in content moderation and other safety roles at the video platform have been told they may be made redundant. TikTok employs about 500 UK workers in the division, according to the Communication Workers Union (CWU). In a snap survey from the CWU, almost every worker who responded – 125 out of 127 – said they’d been told their job was at risk.
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Jul 21, 2024 |
thebureauinvestigates.com | Niamh McIntyre
Senior managers at OkCupid oversaw a culture in which safety issues were routinely neglected, and which staff believed put users at risk of assault and rape, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Workers at the online dating service raised the alarm about serious safety and privacy failures, in particular by one former customer service manager.
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Jun 19, 2024 |
thebureauinvestigates.com | Niamh McIntyre |Francesca Visser
AI-edited videos of Starmer and Sunak evaded social media rules and cheated people out of money
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