#dataworkersinquiry — Public Fediverse posts

The Invisible Cost of a Clean Internet: Burning Out Poor People’s Souls to Moderate Online Content https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-invisible-cost-of-a-clean-internet-burning-out-poor-peoples-souls-to-moderate-online-content/ #dataworkersinquiry #Editorial&News #dataworkers #googledrive #instagram #microsoft #facebook #onedrive #google #icloud #reddit #apple

„Depression, Angststörungen, Traumata: Bei mehr als 140 ehemaligen Content-Moderator:innen wurden schwere Folgeschäden ihrer Arbeit festgestellt. In #Kenia verklagen sie ihre ehemaligen Arbeitgeber, den Plattformkonzern #Meta und die Outsourcing-Firma Sama….“

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/facebook-moderatorinnen-leiden-unter-schweren-psychischen-erkrankungen/

#Sama #Netzpolitik #ContentModeration #DataWorkersInquiry #Depression #Gesundheit #Trauma #Ausbeutung #capitalismIsADeathCult #Kapitalismus

#DataWorkersInquiry #Zine
The Unknown Women of Content Moderation

Many female data workers in Nairobi endure sexual, mental, and physical abuse. This zine sheds light on their experiences as women, mothers, and migrants working as content moderators at #Sama.

"My name is Botlhokwa Ranta, and I have authored this Zine about women like myself who worked at a company named Sama, doing content moderation for Meta in Nairobi, Kenya. Sama is considered by some as a new-age sweatshop that exploits workers’ rights whenever possible. With this zine, I wanted to shed light on our gendered experiences in this working environment, where our vulnerable positions as young women, migrants, and mothers were exploited. Most of the stories are traumatic and come from a place of pain and tragedy. These stories aim to show the world that there are women who would literally go to the ends of the earth for their children and endure the unthinkable. After so much physical, sexual, and mental trauma, we deserve to be heard loud and clear. The stories are told by real women who went through real-life traumatic experiences while working at Sama in Nairobi....."

https://data-workers.org/ranta/ via @data.workers.inquiry

#KI #AI #Technology #Digitalisierung #Data #DataWorkers #Antireport