Facebook to Pay $52 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Moderators’ Exposure to Graphic, Disturbing Content
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variety.comBy Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Facebook agreed to pay $52 million as part of settling a lawsuit alleging the social giant failed to protect content moderators who were exposed to child sexual abuse, beheadings, terrorism, and other disturbing content.
The settlement covers more than 10,000 current and former U.S.-based content moderators who worked for Facebook’s vendors in California, Arizona, Texas and Florida.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in September 2018 in a California state court, alleged that those who performed content moderation work on behalf of Facebook were denied protection against “severe psychological and other injuries” that can result from repeated exposure to graphic content.
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