“There are surely some content moderators that haven't suffered mental health problems connected to the job, but I haven't met them,” says sociologist and computer scientist Milagros Miceli, who has studied the content moderation industry for the past six years. “I have no doubt that content moderation, like coal mining, is a hazardous job.” Coal mining, known for the proliferation of ‘black lung disease', is a classic example of a hazardous job, but there are only approximately 200,000 coal (…)
That too. I don’t think being desensitized to certain things is necessarily a bad thing and I genuinely do think some people are predisposed to be desensitized. As a kid, I naturally gravitated towards horror movies and action movies. Trying to be puritan, limiting my intake, etc wouldn’t have helped in the age of the early internet, haha.