Online Content Moderators Explore Dark World

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'I was moderating hundreds of horrific and traumatising videos'

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The Moderators for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds are a global army of content moderators.

They review and then delete content that either gets reported by other users, or is automatically flagged by tech tools.

Moderators are often employed by third -party companies, but they work on content posted directly on social networks including Instagram , TikTok and Facebook.

The Moderators is on BBC Radio 4 at 13:45 GMT , Monday 11, November to Friday 15, November , and on BBC Sounds .

We also approached the tech companies mentioned in the series.

TikTok says it strives to promote a caring working environment for employees.

Meta - which owns Instagram and Facebook - says it requires all companies to provide 24-hour on-site support.

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