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I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo
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I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo

I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo
Source: The Guardian
Published: Feb, 12 2025 12:00

Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies on. Mark Zuckerberg might be done with factchecking, but he cannot escape the truth. The third richest man in the world announced that Meta will replace its independent factchecking with community notes. I went to the AI Action Summit in Paris this week to tell tech execs and policymakers why this is wrong.

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