She alleged that managers were “belittling and making false accusations” after she complained.
giant, alleging psychological trauma while monitoring content on the website — further raising scrutiny about content moderation online.
According to a suit filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court, Maya Amerson — a former content moderator for the website — alleged that she witnessed “hundreds of acts of extreme and graphic violence” during the four years she worked for the site, resulting in her developing post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues.
Among the traumatic things she witnessed while moderating Reddit, per the suit: “live stream shooting massacres, child sex abuse materials, depictions of bestiality, and extreme gore.” The suit alleges that Amerson “developed mental health disorders and panic attacks due to the extreme nature of the content she was assigned to moderate,” and as a result of being exposed to these materials incessantly. Her mental health allegedly further deteriorated in 2021 and 2022, the final two years of her working for Reddit, as her complaints to Reddit’s HR and requests to move to a different moderation role were reportedly ignored.
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