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Niamh McIntyre

@niamh_mcintyre
14 posts
2024-10-13
The @CWUnews , which is representing TikTok workers, said: “TikTok works because content moderators keep the quality of their content consistently safe. Treating their own staff in trust and safety as disposable is shortsighted.”
2024-10-13 View on X
Reuters

TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation

to Replace Them With AI Katie Scott / Tech.co : AI Moderation Leads to Layoffs at TikTok Sarah Kearns / Hypebeast : TikTok Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Move Towards AI Content Moderati...

🚨TBIJ exclusive: TikTok announced sweeping cuts to its UK-based safety and moderation teams today, with at least 125 workers at risk of redundancy https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/ ...
2024-10-13 View on X
Reuters

TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation

to Replace Them With AI Katie Scott / Tech.co : AI Moderation Leads to Layoffs at TikTok Sarah Kearns / Hypebeast : TikTok Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Move Towards AI Content Moderati...

2024-10-12
🚨TBIJ exclusive: TikTok announced sweeping cuts to its UK-based safety and moderation teams today, with at least 125 workers at risk of redundancy https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/ ...
2024-10-12 View on X
Reuters

TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation

Social media platform TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees from its global workforce, including a large number of staff in Malaysia …

The @CWUnews , which is representing TikTok workers, said: “TikTok works because content moderators keep the quality of their content consistently safe. Treating their own staff in trust and safety as disposable is shortsighted.”
2024-10-12 View on X
Reuters

TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation

Social media platform TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees from its global workforce, including a large number of staff in Malaysia …

2024-08-14
RIP crowdtangle I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this
2024-08-14 View on X
NPR

Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three months before the US election, in favor of the Meta Content Library; Mozilla says 50K+ petitioned against the move

Meta has been bombarded by academics, researchers, politicians and regulators about a tool called CrowdTangle, which most people probably haven't heard of.

2023-11-23
After working on Grindr through a Honduran outsourcer, Ana* was diagnosed with severe anxiety/depression, unable to work for months afterwards. Years later, she is still “regaining her independence”
2023-11-23 View on X
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Interviews with 40 current and ex-content moderators across Match Group, Grindr, and Bumble describe their mental health issues that they link with their jobs

Niamh McIntyre / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism : Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @cocobyname , @jaspjackson , @alphabetworkers , @jaspjackson , @niamh_mcintyre , @e...

Many said the targets they worked to made these conditions more difficult. We were sent the results of this survey sent to Bumble staffers dealing with the most serious cases. “Always failing at my targets... has me constantly feeling anxious” [image]
2023-11-23 View on X
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Interviews with 40 current and ex-content moderators across Match Group, Grindr, and Bumble describe their mental health issues that they link with their jobs

Niamh McIntyre / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism : Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @cocobyname , @jaspjackson , @alphabetworkers , @jaspjackson , @niamh_mcintyre , @e...

Workers said understaffing sometimes led to long delays in addressing abuse reports - a number of workers drew a direct link between their working conditions and the safety of the apps' users.
2023-11-23 View on X
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Interviews with 40 current and ex-content moderators across Match Group, Grindr, and Bumble describe their mental health issues that they link with their jobs

Niamh McIntyre / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism : Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @cocobyname , @jaspjackson , @alphabetworkers , @jaspjackson , @niamh_mcintyre , @e...

The issue of dating app mods' targets was first raised in this 2021 ProPublica investigation. I wanted to build on this reporting by @bedwards92 et al by looking at the sector's increasing reliance on outsourced workers in lower-wage countries. https://www.propublica.org/...
2023-11-23 View on X
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Interviews with 40 current and ex-content moderators across Match Group, Grindr, and Bumble describe their mental health issues that they link with their jobs

Niamh McIntyre / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism : Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @cocobyname , @jaspjackson , @alphabetworkers , @jaspjackson , @niamh_mcintyre , @e...

Have you ever had a bad experience on a dating app and reported another user? I spent the last few months speaking to the burnt-out workers - many of them outsourced & based in the Global South - struggling to keep dating apps safe: https://www.wired.com/...
2023-11-23 View on X
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Interviews with 40 current and ex-content moderators across Match Group, Grindr, and Bumble describe their mental health issues that they link with their jobs

Niamh McIntyre / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism : Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @cocobyname , @jaspjackson , @alphabetworkers , @jaspjackson , @niamh_mcintyre , @e...

There's still a lot more we want to do. If you're an industry source or someone who's had a bad experience with dating app reporting, DM or email for my Whatsapp/Signal! 📩
2023-11-23 View on X
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Interviews with 40 current and ex-content moderators across Match Group, Grindr, and Bumble describe their mental health issues that they link with their jobs

Niamh McIntyre / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism : Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @cocobyname , @jaspjackson , @alphabetworkers , @jaspjackson , @niamh_mcintyre , @e...

2023-06-21
Enjoyed this long-read on the precarious workers powering the AI boom, + this insight on the sisyphean effort to build models that function without manual labour https://www.theverge.com/... [image]
2023-06-21 View on X
The Verge

A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training

As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. Bluesky: @sarahjeong.bsky.social , @knguyen.bsky.social , and @yoyoel.com Masto...

2022-08-02
Great piece by @_RosieBradbury on the gruelling work + inadequate support for TikTok's outsourced content moderators in Morocco https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2022-08-02 View on X
Insider

As TikTok grows in the Middle East and North Africa, its regional content moderators complain of psychological distress and pay of around $2 to $3 per hour

- As TikTok gains in popularity in the Middle East and North Africa, it's ramping up its content moderation operation in the region.

2021-04-11
grim & fascinating read on online communities dedicated to exposing influencers by @sarahmanavis https://www.newstatesman.com/ ...
2021-04-11 View on X
New Statesman

A look at Tattle Life, a gossip forum where users dox celebrities and influencers, dissect their personal lives, and target them with vicious comments

Sarah Manavis / New Statesman : Tweets: @carnage4life , @linzasaur , @_helen__w , @niamh_mcintyre , @kirstiejbrewer , @ruqaiya_h , @hxneybun , @ruthselina , @muzzer_daftbat , @iam...