23 February, 2012

The dirty job of keeping Facebook clean � Social Media Collective

The dirty job of keeping Facebook clean � Social Media Collective: Last week, Gawker received a curious document. Turned over by an aggrieved worker from the online freelance employment site oDesk, the document iterated, over the course of several pages and in unsettling detail, exactly what kinds of content should be deleted from the social networking site that had outsourced its content moderation to oDesk’s team. The social networking site, as it turned out, was Facebook.