{"id":29323,"date":"2020-11-19T16:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T00:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29323"},"modified":"2020-11-19T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T00:23:22","slug":"facebook-content-moderators-demand-more-workplace-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29323","title":{"rendered":"Facebook content moderators demand more workplace protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 content moderators for Facebook are demanding increased coronavirus protections in the workplace, saying they are being forced to return to offices amid a spike in COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lwhqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmzdjmjq_xjhdrrhvhtdbgrsvbpgj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lwhqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmzdjmjq_xjhdrrhvhtdbgrsvbpgj.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1605913040861000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0_-wQOtsYltzmA9dLoEK4t\">The letter<\/a>, signed by some Facebook employees, was addressed to Facebook CEO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kdffwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqltrvlvp_xjhdrrhvhtdbgrsvbpgj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kdffwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqltrvlvp_xjhdrrhvhtdbgrsvbpgj.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1605913040861000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1nZtoJWQfIWCbK2545pQza\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg as well as the chief executives of Accenture and CPL, the two companies contracted by the social media giant for content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the pandemic, content moderation was easily Facebook\u2019s most brutal job,\u201d the workers wrote in Wednesday&#8217;s letter. \u201cNow, on top of work that is psychologically toxic, holding onto the job means walking into a hot zone. In several offices, multiple COVID cases have occurred on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A contractor tested positive for COVID-19 shortly after content moderators working for Accenture were asked to return to their offices last month in Austin, Texas,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dcmszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtgrctmg_xjhdrrhvhtdbgrsvbpgj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dcmszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtgrctmg_xjhdrrhvhtdbgrsvbpgj.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1605913040861000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Rga6mpJddqO21A6jOKTsc\">The Intercept<\/a>\u00a0reported, citing an internal email.<\/p>\n<p>The workers are now calling on Facebook and its contracting partners to improve safety and working conditions, allow moderators who live with at-risk individuals to stay home and provide hazard pay to those who return to offices.<\/p>\n<p>They also reiterated demands for Facebook to stop outsourcing content moderation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 content moderators for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29324,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions\/29324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}