https://medium.com/@erin.l.schumaker/why-conspiracy-theories-work-so-well-on-facebook-466a42af6b76

Erin SchumakerBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingMar 5Credit: Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision/GettyPanic attacks were common. Employees joked about suicide, had sex in the stairwells, and smoked weed on break.

A disturbing investigative report by the Verge last week revealed that some of Facebook’s contract moderators—who are tasked with keeping content like beheadings, bestiality, and racism out of your news feed—have turned to extreme coping mechanisms to get through the workday. Some contractors have been profoundly impacted by the content they’re exposed to, which may have implications for the rest of us who have grown accustomed to scrolling past sketchy links in our news feeds.