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144 people were diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder after moderating horrific content for Facebook.
One of the 144 people diagnosed with PTSD was one of hundreds of young Africans who worked from 2019 to 2023 at an outsourcing company, Samasource , used by Facebook’s owner Meta to protect its hundreds of millions of users from the worst of the torrent of images and video being uploaded to the social media platform every minute .
Meta and Samasource provided wellness counsellors, but they were not medical doctors.
Requests for psychiatric care under employee medical insurance were ignored’, claim alleges.
Some became desensitised to sexual urges and were repulsed by their own sexual partners.
Ethiopians tasked with handling content from their home country were targeted by one of the warring parties.
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