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I have no frame of reference for that pay. Is the pay low or normal? Is the main issue the required 6 days/week?

The pay is decent enough. But the job description for a kid straight out of college, filtering disturbing videos is not something I would recommend. And imagine doing this for 6 days per week with a quota. And you get fired for not getting the quota.

This terror, fake news, live disturbing videos has been going on for Facebook for years now, I think they should have developed some kind of machine learning to at least detect and reduce a sort of percentage than get this fresh college kids to filter them. Instead they prioritize releasing new emotions stickers and transforming their messenger to a Snapchat clone.

What makes you say they don't have any automated filters?

They have hundreds, probably more than a thousand developers, pretty sure they can work on content filters and emotion stickers simultaneously.

I think if they do have automations, they wouldn't outsource it here to us. Plus employing an additional 3,000 is not giving me any belief that they do have some filtering mechanisms.

They definitely do and are working on it. But it's not perfect and eventually you need human judgement. Even if it's just for the initial data training set.

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