I hope they win their lawsuit. I listened to a Radio lab episode a few years ago about FB moderators. The shit they have to see day in and day out sound absolutely horrible. Pics and videos of extreme violence and child pornography sounds like it’d give any normal person some major trauma.
Go on the Reddit front page or Twitter home page with a heart rate and blood pressure monitor and scroll for 10 minutes.
You will find that in almost every instance, both measures go up. The whole point of social media is to agitate because agitation correlates with engagement which correlates with mucho ad dinero.
I hope they win their lawsuit. I listened to a Radio lab episode a few years ago about FB moderators. The shit they have to see day in and day out sound absolutely horrible. Pics and videos of extreme violence and child pornography sounds like it’d give any normal person some major trauma.
Exposed to a firehose of the worst humanity has to offer. I can’t even imagine
Go on the Reddit front page or Twitter home page with a heart rate and blood pressure monitor and scroll for 10 minutes.
You will find that in almost every instance, both measures go up. The whole point of social media is to agitate because agitation correlates with engagement which correlates with mucho ad dinero.
That’s not fb’s fault though?