Facebook will give $ 52 million settlement,according to lawsuit of reviewer’s

Facebook agreed to pay $ 52 million in settlement and content reviewer’s lawsuit. The latter claim psychological trauma caused by repeated viewing of disturbing materials such as pictures of child sexual abuse and terrorism.

The case and the closing case covered more than 10,000 current and former Facebook auditors from California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. The lawyer said that these people will each receive a $ 1,000 medical screening fee and, if necessary, additional treatment costs.

Facebook will also provide on-site guidance and tools to help content auditors better control the way they view pictures in order to reduce the viewing of these contents.

“We are pleased that Facebook has partnered with us to create an unprecedented project that will help people accomplish tasks that were unimaginable a few years ago.” The plaintiff’s attorney, Steve Williams, said, “The job created The injury is real and very serious. ”

Facebook has not commented on this.

After the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook vigorously expanded the platform content review, trying to avoid false political information, violent pictures, terrorist propaganda information, and revenge pornography appear on the site. On the one hand, they adopt new technologies, on the other hand, they also hire thousands of new employees to perform audits. As of the end of last year, Facebook had a total of 15,000 content reviewers, but almost all of them are not direct employees of Facebook, but are employed by labor dispatch companies such as Accenture and Cognizant.

Before the settlement agreement was reached, many content reviewers were marginalized because of the epidemic, because Facebook feared that there might be security and privacy issues when working from home. The company has also slowed down the rate of resumption of content reviewers, but has increased efforts to review content through artificial intelligence technology.

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