The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators in America...

In one of the most inane pieces of modern day journalism, "The Trauma Floor: Inside The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators in America" by the Verge breathlessly begins:

"The panic attacks started after Chloe watched a man die.

She spent the past three and a half weeks in training, trying to harden herself against the daily onslaught of disturbing posts: the hate speech, the violent attacks, the graphic pornography."

In an attempt to expose harsh working conditions at Cognizant, a 'professional services vendor' contracted by Facebook to moderate content on the 'social networking' site, the article instead details the experiences of several snowflakes as they experience for the first time the harsh realities of the real world that our modern day educational (read state indoctrination centers) institutes have shielded them from. 

It continues:

"The moderators told me it’s a place where the conspiracy videos and memes that they see each day gradually lead them to embrace fringe views. One auditor walks the floor promoting the idea that the Earth is flat. A former employee told me he has begun to question certain aspects of the Holocaust. Another former employee, who told me he has mapped every escape route out of his house and sleeps with a gun at his side, said: “I no longer believe 9/11 was a terrorist attack.”

Chloe cries for a while in the break room, and then in the bathroom, but begins to worry that she is missing too much training."

This is what happens when critical thinking is no longer taught in schools. When everyone gets a participation trophy, safe spaces and trigger warnings. When history is re-written so its not 'offensive' and anything that goes against liberal orthodoxy is suppressed. 

When they are finally exposed to reality, they fall apart. 

As if questioning certain aspects of the holocaust or 9/11 is 'fringe' or extreme, or even a bad thing, the article gets even more absurd. 

It goes on to detail the ways the snowflakes at first cope with finding out the world can be a bad, dangerous and even violent place:

Panic attacks, frequent crying in the bathroom, smoking weed on breaks, and having sex with each other (what they euphemistically refer to as, no joke 'trauma bonding' the irony...) in a room used for female lactation. 

'Chloe' the pseudonym used for the snowflake who, unable to cope with and integrate the new information like some of her peers did, claims to have developed PTSD from having to witness reality and entertain opposing viewpoints. 

Chloe goes on to report, shockingly that:

“People really started to believe these posts they were supposed to be moderating,” she says. “They were saying, ‘Oh gosh, they weren’t really there. Look at this CNN video of David Hogg — he’s too old to be in school.’ People started Googling things instead of doing their jobs and looking into conspiracy theories about them. We were like, ‘Guys, no, this is the crazy stuff we’re supposed to be moderating. What are you doing?’”

How dare they question the narrative they are supposed to be enforcing on the people? 

To read the rest of The Verges intrepid, groundbreaking reporting, see the link below. I just can't even...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona