By 2009, Facebook had established its first content moderation team known internally as the “porn cops.” The responsibility of hunting down posts containing spam and porn fell to a team of 150 entry-level workers. Four years later, it was paying contractors in countries like Turkey, Mexico, and India $US1 ($1.40)…
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook — the social media company you may recognise from United Nations accusations of complicity in genocide and its role in recklessly flooding the web with conspiracy theories and extremism — predictably failed to placate a coalition of civil rights groups leading…
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