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So, I got interested in this article's description of horrid working conditions and decided to read about it carefully. But I noticed that it gives emotional descriptions of it long before the actual facts. I wouldn't go as far as calling this a manipulation, but it's certainly a disturbing writing style.

3rd paragraph:

> grueling work conditions, humiliating treatment, and a secretive, imperious culture in which they were treated as disposable outsiders.

6th paragraph:

> “It was degrading as a human being,” said another. “We weren’t treated as individuals. We were treated in this robot way.”

And then, finally, on 10th paragraphs, we get a glimpse on the facts:

> they received benefits including limited medical insurance, paid time off after 6 months and transit reimbursement

(BTW, is it usual for contractors to receive such perks?)

> A company happy hour would happen at 8 p.m., and we’d be working

Horrible, inhumane treatment indeed.

> Over time, the work became increasingly demanding, and Facebook’s trending news team started to look more and more like the worst stereotypes of a digital media content farm. Managers gave curators aggressive quotas for how many summaries and headlines to write, and timed how long it took curators to write a post. The general standard was 20 posts a day.

20 posts during 8 hour work day is almost half an hour on one post. It is considered too little? Seriously?

So — apart from all the pretty words, I didn't really see any especially bad treatment. Hell, I'm pretty sure that your average newspaper employees have more nightmare stories.



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