Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator

Exclusive: Job has left some ‘addicted’ to extreme material and pushed others to far rightThe task of moderating Facebook continues to leave psychological scars on the company’s employees, months after efforts to improve conditions for the company’s thousands of contractors, the Guardian has learned.A group of current and former contractors who worked for years at the social network’s Berlin-based moderation centres has reported witnessing colleagues become “a