Facebook doesn't hire Moderators
by business_kid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5DFXB)
Something locally turned up on a Current Affairs show.
Facebook's head office is in Ireland for tax reasons. Facebook has a great need to have their content moderated. But Facebook doesn't hire any content moderators. It had a contract with a company called Covalen.
Facebook's content moderators have a very hard life. They are poorly paid, and they have to watch some pretty dreadful stuff. They're only human, and certain images don't leave you. They spend their days watching the worst of the worst. Not surprisingly, staff turnover is very high.
They are offered: Psychological counseling; if needed, professional help. Both offers collapse upon examination. Counseling involves a Social worker listening to you every now & then. The deal they have with health insurance leaves you footing 35% of the bill pretty fast if you need professional help. They have a gag in the contract, to prevent them talking to the media.
One of them broke that gagging order to talk to the media here. He's an Egyptian, who spent 4 years in prison for nothing earlier in his life, so he felt he could take it. Truth is, nobody normal can take it.
I tried to extract a video interview to post it somewhere,but RTE are smarter than that, and dumber than that. I couldn't even get last night's show on playback. I know they have Geo-IP stuff. But here's their web page, which perhaps others can make sense of. Code:<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#" xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<title>RTE Player</title>
<base href="https://www.rte.ie/player/">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" />
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=484129073">
<link rel="manifest" crossorigin="use-credentials" href="manifest.json">
<meta property="description" content="Watch all your favourite TV shows Live or On Demand on your PC, smartphone or tablet for free." />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="RTE Player" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:title" content="RTE Player" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Watch all your favourite TV shows Live or On Demand on your PC, smartphone or tablet for free." />
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<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.rte.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/splashscreen_web_1280x720.png" />
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</html>When I look at it, it plays 4 ads, then pukes. I think it's all in the second last line, but I can't point youtube-dl at a script, can I?
Facebook's head office is in Ireland for tax reasons. Facebook has a great need to have their content moderated. But Facebook doesn't hire any content moderators. It had a contract with a company called Covalen.
Facebook's content moderators have a very hard life. They are poorly paid, and they have to watch some pretty dreadful stuff. They're only human, and certain images don't leave you. They spend their days watching the worst of the worst. Not surprisingly, staff turnover is very high.
They are offered: Psychological counseling; if needed, professional help. Both offers collapse upon examination. Counseling involves a Social worker listening to you every now & then. The deal they have with health insurance leaves you footing 35% of the bill pretty fast if you need professional help. They have a gag in the contract, to prevent them talking to the media.
One of them broke that gagging order to talk to the media here. He's an Egyptian, who spent 4 years in prison for nothing earlier in his life, so he felt he could take it. Truth is, nobody normal can take it.
I tried to extract a video interview to post it somewhere,but RTE are smarter than that, and dumber than that. I couldn't even get last night's show on playback. I know they have Geo-IP stuff. But here's their web page, which perhaps others can make sense of. Code:<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#" xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<title>RTE Player</title>
<base href="https://www.rte.ie/player/">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" />
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=484129073">
<link rel="manifest" crossorigin="use-credentials" href="manifest.json">
<meta property="description" content="Watch all your favourite TV shows Live or On Demand on your PC, smartphone or tablet for free." />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="RTE Player" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:title" content="RTE Player" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Watch all your favourite TV shows Live or On Demand on your PC, smartphone or tablet for free." />
<meta property="og:url" content="" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.rte.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/splashscreen_web_1280x720.png" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="static/assets/icons/player/favicon-triangle.png" />
<script async src=" https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js" type="text/plain" class="optanon-category-C0004"></script>
<script src="https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/sdkloader/ima3.js" type="text/plain" class="optanon-category-C0004"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.bc3f503a8a2ee3b469dc.css"></head>
<body>
<app-root></app-root>
<script src="runtime-es2015.827df314b5c6b6506f45.js" type="module"></script><script src="runtime-es5.827df314b5c6b6506f45.js" nomodule defer></script><script src="polyfills-es5.88e62a38da0fa760ece4.js" nomodule defer></script><script src="polyfills-es2015.4b8be84e633e87f74c22.js" type="module"></script><script src="scripts.5fd16d071ec8457517c2.js" defer></script><script src="scripts-index-page.ba9dd8105f767a8d5f87.js" defer></script><script src="main-es2015.e5f6abc1877e9810ddc7.js" type="module"></script><script src="main-es5.e5f6abc1877e9810ddc7.js" nomodule defer></script></body>
</html>When I look at it, it plays 4 ads, then pukes. I think it's all in the second last line, but I can't point youtube-dl at a script, can I?