Oppressive Intimacy of Technology

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Mentioned in our conversation:

Articles about moderating social media platforms. Content warning for descriptions of disturbing images.

Behind TikTok’s Boom: a legion of traumatized, $10-a-day moderators

Facebook to pay $52 million to content moderators suffering from PTSD

Black Mirror: the tv show about connections between society and technology

Books We’ve Recommended Previously (that are also about the intersection of life and technology):

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