Protecting privacy and the well-being of content moderators are not the most famous of Facebook's virtues
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Replying to @Pinboard @alexstamos
If FB content moderators can't do the job from home (though for countries outside the US, Facebook seems to be fine having them work remotely from Dublin), then create safe conditions for them at the workplace. Give them private offices and whatever else it takes.
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Replying to @alexstamos @TomPaineToday
What was the contingency plan for something like a big earthquake or other disaster, that would require people to work remotely for long stretches of time? All Silicon Valley companies have these plans, after all, and the circumstances are similar here
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Replying to @alexstamos @TomPaineToday
The question will be whether Facebook treats content moderation as a tier 1 priority (comparable to keeping the site up) during this improvisational scramble, or whether its considered nonessential and replaceable by much-less-supervised algorithm during the course of the crisis
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If I point out that Facebook has been historically awful to content moderators, it's not just to score the triple spinning Twitter dunk, but also to suggest that it would take a psychological leap to (correctly, in my view) put them in the front ranks of essential workers now
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