We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and gripping story about who or what determines our world view.
HANNA BERVOETS is the author of seven novels in the Netherlands and the recipient of the Frans Kellendonk Prize. How long before the moderators own morals bend and flex under the weight of what they see? 'We Had to Remove This Post is a discomfiting mystery about the disturbing parts of social media that most people never see.' - New York Times. Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend - and for the first time in her life, Kayleigh's future seems bright.īut soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. That's why she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention.
To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst - but Kayleigh needs money.
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