Mental health at risk as online moderators laid off

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The CEO of Spunout told the Joint Committee on Education that news of Twitter cutting '4,500 of its 5,000 moderators' was troubling

Outsourced staff at the troubled social media giant revealed over the weekend that they had been fired with no warning, with reports estimating that more than three quarters of the contract workers who oversee content have been let go.

Youth Mental Health Promotion Manager at Jigsaw Maureen Murray warned that trying to get harmful social media content taken down is already a"tortuous" process, and urged that this be tackled urgently.Mr Power welcomed the Government's proposal to include an individual complaints mechanism in the Online Safety Bill.

Pointing to the"link between suicide and economic depression", which was apparent in the years after the economic collapse, Mr Power said that he was"concerned by the talk of a recession".

 

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What a disaster! Users will be forced use the Block Button (shock!) And as with all social media, parents will have to start doing the job of parenting.

Fake, activist story that singles out Twitter alone.

Troubling to the leftist propaganda perhaps

Cringe

'Ms Murray urged that the term 'mobile phone' be ditched, as the device is 'a worldwide computer'' Cringe.

Irish media who used to love twitter now hate it ...Many prominent Irish progressive journalists tweet a hit piece on twitter every day....See no irony in sharing it on twitter...None of them are leaving twitter in protest...

If only our Data Protection Commission hadn't tried to make Twitter above the law

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