Open Letter from Facebook Content Moderators
The TL;DR is that around 200 content moderators, location unspecified, are protesting decisions to move them back into the office.It's not immediately clear from the letter that this was Facebook's decision. In fact, it appears that Facebook subcontracts content moderation to Accenture and CPL, both of which are named in this letter.The letter also takes shots at Mark Zuckerberg's growing wealth and attacks Facebook's attempts to augment the human content moderators with AI pre-filters to remove the worst content. The latter claim is strange, as the content moderators are the ones most likely to benefit from AI pre-filtering. They try to claim that Facebook "failed" to create a workable AI, but I seriously doubt that Facebook has given up on the project. More likely that they're still iterating. I suspect these people feel they need to attack the AI angle to protect their jobs.The letter goes on to demand 50% higher hazard pay, demands that the subcontracted content moderators be hired directly into Facebook as full employees, out of their contracting jobs under consulting firms.