Maybe a better question would be how a Slashdot link makes it to the front page...
Because the buzzfeed article was instantly dead after it was submitted (multiple people tried).
My ex-girlfriend did a stint that included work like this at Google. She was originally hired (as a contractor) for something completely different. At the time, they had a counselor on site to deal with anyone getting traumatized by the work. And not surprisingly, she was not converted to full-time employment after 10 months of this...
I read a story a few months or so ago about a company that provides this kind of monitoring service for several major social media companies. They seemed to handle it a lot better than Google. In particular, they had counsellors on site available any time people were working.
I tried to find a link but failed.
You'd think the FBI would rent an API to make comparisons against their database of illegal stuff.
What I find most interesting here is that they apparently overworked him so much on all this horrible content that he became unable to actually do his job and tell the difference between acceptable and unacceptable.
Just curious: What is the actual job description for this kind of interwebs janitor'ing?