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Facebook work filtering posts 'cost me my humanity'

Screening out extreme content left him numb to suffering, a former Kenya-based worker tells the BBC.

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IMHO, Facebook took advantage of their poverty. I can’t imagine myself, or anyone for that matter, doing this job. This will really mess you up. :frowning:

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