It needed an accomplished novelist to explore humanely the damage. 'The dank underside of social media, its cruelty and delusions, have become, our shared affliction. We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and urgent story about what - or who - determines how we see the world. She's still totally fine, though - or is she? But soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways.īut when her colleagues begin to break down when Sigrid, her new girlfriend, grows increasingly distant and fragile when her friends start espousing the very conspiracy theories they're meant to be evaluating Kayleigh begins to wonder if the job may be too much for them.
Yet Kayleigh is good at her job and in her colleagues, she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend - and for the first time in her life, Kayleigh's future seems bright. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines.
Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed. That's why she takes a job as a content moderator for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention.
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