Google has long struggled to police the content on its sites, and on Monday, The Verge’s Casey Newton shed light on the human moderators who actually have to carry out the daunting and often demoralizing task. Newton highlights multiple YouTube moderators, most of whom work for a company under contract to the tech giant. They watch videos that are downright disturbing (we’ll let you read the...
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We’re in the middle of Chinese New Year celebrations at the start of the Year of the Rabbit. At Meta Platforms, though, it’s the “year of efficiency,” as CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared Wednesday on announcing fourth-quarter results. Investors such as Altimeter Capital, which last fall called on Meta to streamline, will be happy. It’s just a pity that Meta, like much of big tech, appears to have...
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