A former Facebook employee has sued the company and claims her work caused post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to Motherboard.
Selena Scola used to work as an external contributor to Facebook through a company called Pro Unlimited. Selena's job was to identify and remove content from the older one social network that violated community standards, eg hate speech, pictures violence, self-harm, bullying, nudity and sexual content.
According to Scola's attorneys, their client developed PTSD due to "continuous and indiscriminate exposure to extremely toxic and extremely gruesome images in the workplace." They also claim that Facebook lacks adequate mental health services healths for the monitoring of its employees.
On the other hand, Facebook said in the Motherboard that it provides mental health services to its employees. He also stated that he also provides educational procedures for mental well-being.
It will be interesting to see how this will go forward, as it could have wider implications for companies that require similar work from their executives. Facebook currently has about 7.500 people who only work to locate and remove any unacceptable content. According to Moneycontrol, this number is expected to increase in 20.000 people with workers from India who will have annual earnings from 3.100 up to 5.500 dollars.
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