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PTSD, depression and anxiety: why former Facebook moderators in Kenya are taking legal action

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144 people were diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder after moderating horrific content for Facebook.

One of the 144 people diagnosed with PTSD was one of hundreds of young Africans who worked from 2019 to 2023 at an outsourcing company, Samasource , used by Facebook’s owner Meta to protect its hundreds of millions of users from the worst of the torrent of images and video being uploaded to the social media platform every minute .