A New Report Says Facebook Pays Filipinos $2.33 an Hour to Check For ‘Offensive’ Content

NewImageThis reminds me of the hypocrisy from the Daily News: trumpeting the minimum wage, but paying their paperboys (paper delivery people) less than minimum wage. 

Facebook pays young Filipinos to remove terror-related material

An army of Facebook workers are tasked with removing terror-related material MoS investigation reveals that Facebook has hired young Filipinos to do the job Hundreds of them – some of who have limited English – ‘earn just £1.81 an hour’ They face being sacked if they fail to meet quotas, assessing hundreds of posts The social media giant recorded profits of more than £4.7 billion in 2015 alone They are the army of workers who man Facebook’s front line, tasked with removing offensive and terror-related material from the internet giant’s site.