https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7mqj4/watch-facebook-moderators-speak-out-about-poor-working-conditions-in-ireland

On Friday, Facebook content moderators in Ireland and members of Foxglove—a technologist activist group that has helped mobilize content moderators—held a press conference on YouTube after meeting with the country's deputy Prime Minister (Tánaiste) Leo Varadkar to speak out about working conditions at the tech giant and present demands for improving them.

For years, content moderators across the digital economy, but specifically at Facebook, have suffered performing the invisible labor necessary to function daily. At Facebook, their viewing and screening harmful content is essential to the platform’s existence, but content moderators are treatedly markedly different from employees in the company. Moderators are often contracted instead of employed, outsourced, underpaid, made to sign restrictive non-disclosure agreements, and provided inadequate mental health support for the material they’re forced to view every day.