Sarah Katz
- Former Facebook moderator Sarah Katz has described the pressure she was under to review thousands of posts a day from the darkest corners of the platform.
- Katz told Business Insider that she eventually became desensitized to child porn and bestiality because she saw so much of it.
- Her experience raised questions about Facebook’s efforts to stamp out child exploitation.
- But the 27-year-old was proud of her work and urged tech firms to do more to make moderation a career.
- Facebook said it recognized that moderation can be difficult, but said the employees “play a crucial role in helping create a safe environment for the Facebook community.”
A former Facebook moderator has said the pressure to churn through a never-ending pile of disturbing material eventually made her desensitized to child pornography and bestiality.
Sarah Katz worked as a content reviewer at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters through a third-party contractor, Vertisystem, for eight months in 2016. Her job was simple: Figuring out if posts reported to Facebook broke the company’s detailed community standards.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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