'Absolutely inhumane' | Staff tasked with moderating Facebook's distressing content left with serious mental health issues

Staff tasked with checking Facebook and Instagram for violent and distressing content are suing the company after going on sick leave with psychological trauma.

Workers at CCC Barcelona Digital Services - a company to which Meta outsources its content moderation, to check the content of Facebook and Instagram, have struggled with the mental toll of checking videos and images containing despicable content, including murders, sexual assault and livestreamed suicides.

As reported by Euronews, more than a fifth of the firm’s workforce have reportedly even gone on sick leave to deal with mental fallout.

Several workers are now even suing the company over the distress they have been caused by having to view the content on a regular basis.