Technology

Social Media: Keeping Horrors Off Facebook.

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“Imagine putting up with your commute, heading into work, and sitting in a cubicle watching murders, child abuse, drug use, and suicides all day,” said Mike Murphy on Qz. com. That’s the job Facebook is hiring for after a string of horrific videos appeared on the social network in recent weeks. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to hire 3,000 more people to monitor the site for disturbing content, in addition to the 4,500 workers who already investigate videos reported by users. Having more moderators should help the social network spot and take down the worst videos much more quickly, like the grisly video that appeared on Facebook Live last month of a man in Thailand killing his 11-month-old daughter and then committing suicide. But while Facebook’s nearly 2 billion users may be spared such horrors, what about the 7,500 workers whose job it