09.05.25
Big Tech
Exhausted, traumatised and underpaid, content moderators are the invisible victims of a labour system in need of overhaul
15.03.25
Cases filed in Turkish court against outsourcing giant Telus Digital by moderators who claim they were fired after trying to unionise
11.10.24
The video platform has cut hundreds of jobs across the world as it shifts to rely on AI and outsourced workers
06.08.24
Telegram groups used during week of riots contain incitements to violence and death threats to public figures
22.07.24
Senior figures at dating app accused of mismanagement, negligence and nepotism
14.06.24
Local push to protect Worcestershire farmland has hired longtime Boris Johnson adviser and cost upwards of £10,000
05.06.24
AI-edited videos of Starmer and Sunak evaded social media rules and cheated people out of money
22.05.24
TBIJ's recent investigation into Toloka provided a fascinating glimpse into the global AI industry and its insatiable thirst for data
28.03.24
The forums and groups where online gig workers discuss their tasks offered incredibly insight into how facial recognition tech relies on an army of outsourced data labellers
27.03.24
Tech used to repress dissent against Putin’s regime is powered by unwitting workers in global south
Workers logging onto a Russian gig work platform unwittingly trained facial recognition tools used to detain activists in Moscow
13.12.23
‘It's messed up … they don't think about the safety for their agents’
20.11.23
Harsh targets and distressing content have left mental scars on a global workforce of content moderators
28.06.23
The lawsuit cited TBIJ reporting about the traumatic content Teleperformance workers in Colombia were exposed to when working as TikTok moderators
19.04.23
Outsourcing giant’s deal comes after TBIJ investigation into working conditions faced by company's TikTok moderators
14.02.23
Remote workers are being paid a pittance to play fictional women messaging men who sign up for sex-chat services
29.01.23
Criminal gangs are exploiting lax regulation to use the UK as a base for carrying out industrial-scale fraud
21.11.22
How low-paid employees in India and Costa Rica power the system used to monitor warehouse workers
20.10.22
Moderators told the Bureau they faced inadequate psychological support to deal with the endless stream of disturbing content and had to work to gruelling performance targets
25.09.22
CitizenGo network combines the US Christian right, militant European Catholics, Russian Orthodox hardliners and sanctioned oligarchs
