A former Facebook content moderator has filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that it failed to protect its employees from severe mental trauma caused by the graphic images they see every day.
Selena Scola says she and other content moderators were exposed to “images and livestreamed broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide and murder”, according to the complaint.
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