New magazine is out now! Big Tech's Success: The untold exploitation of african workers ✨12 unfiltered stories of the fight for justice ✨Content moderators talk about the harsh conditions, labor organizing & the future Read now dingdingding.org 🧵

“In Kenya, where an educated workforce faces chronic unemployment [...] forcing many talented young graduates into the digital economy.” Nerima Wako, on the silence of politicians about the risks and perils involved in digital work. dingdingding.org/issue-7/a-call…

Mophat shares how his experiences working as a moderator for ChatGPT have shaped his advocacy for ethical AI. dingdingding.org/issue-7/interv…

“I watched these videos constantly until I could no longer bear it. [...] My attempts to describe how the videos affected my relationship with my children fell on dead ears.” – A mother writes about how this job negatively affected her children. dingdingding.org/issue-7/a-moth…

Whistleblowing was not a choice but an act of survival – Daniel Motaung tells the story of how became one of the first ones to expose the industry’s practices and what the future of content moderation must look like: dingdingding.org/issue-7/interv…

“Slowly, we bleed the web of its horrors. Yet every word – every image – is a scar, permanently engraved. We ask when society will see us.” A story of the fight for generations: dingdingding.org/issue-7/a-figh…

“My mental health has been badly and irreversibly affected; I need serious psychiatric help, as well as compensation for my well-being now and in the near future.” A former content moderator from Nigeria writes about what he called the exploitation zone. dingdingding.org/issue-7/the-ex…

“While algorithms learn and profit targets are met, It’s the human touch that wears the mask, moderating for the unseen world.” Excerpt from a poem by Mojez, a labour rights activist and former moderator for TikTok. dingdingding.org/issue-7/guardi…

“And then you had women having miscarriages. Women started losing weight, becoming unkempt... For the most part, the violence we saw was against women – intimate partner violence, women being stabbed.” – Kauna Malgwi about the hidden toll of women. dingdingding.org/issue-7/hidden…

“It's heartening to know our voices are being heard and amplified.” Please help us share the stories of the moderators. dingdingding.org Foxglove Siasa Place Voice of African Content Moderators

„Bis ich es nicht mehr ertragen konnte“ - zwei Content Moderatorinnen sprechen darüber, wie der Job sie und ihre Familien aus der Bahn warf. Ein Blick hinter die glitzernden Kulissen von KI und Social Media. SUPERRR @[email protected] Max Hoppenstedt spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/d…

[LAUNCHING] “The compost engineers and sus saberes lentos: a manifest for regenerative technologies” by Joana Varon and lucía. Can we switch tech imaginaries towards regenerative systems instead of extractivist tech for war, anxiety and domination? codingrights.org/docs/compost_e…