STREAMING TRAUMA
Worldwide, the average person spends hundreds of minutes a day viewing images and videos posted on social media platforms. Unfortunately, not all content is good-natured, and many uploads include disturbing, graphic, and even violent content such as child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide, and murder.
To maintain a sanitized platform, maximize profits, and cultivate their public image, social media platforms rely on “content moderators” to view and remove content that violates the company’s terms of use and legal standards.
According to past and current moderators, they are required to watch and assess hundreds of thousands of videos and images a day. Consequently, they can consume and be subjected to a regular diet of horrific videos, running the gamut from pornography, animal mutilation, suicides, rapes, and other traumatic events. This near-constant exposure can easily lead to psychological trauma, including PTSD.
