Aarcflick

Even in the relatively regulated world of the contemporary internet, you never know what the person next to you is looking at on their phone: Fascist propaganda? Extreme pornography? Photos of a church picnic? So the drab, drab office building that gives its name to "American Sweatshop" looks like anything. The only sign that something's amiss is the on-site consultant and employees vomiting, crying, and throwing tantrums at their desks. Content moderation is a well-documented phenomenon, first publicized in Adrian Chen's 2014 "Wired" article, "The Workers Keeping Dick Pics and Decapitations Off Your Facebook Feed." The headline says it all: around the world, a silent army of low-wage workers manually reviews flagged content on social media to determine whether or not it violates the site's terms of service. In practice, this means being exposed to a constant stream of child sexual abuse, murder, and sexual content for hours every day, with all...