![]() ![]() Translated from the original Dutch by Emma Rault. Examining the toxic world of content moderation, the novel forces us to ask: what is right? What is real? What is normal? And who gets to decide? We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling, powerful and gripping story about who or what determines our world view. How long before the moderators own morals bend and flex under the weight of what they see? ![]() Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend – and for the first time in her life, Kayleigh’s future seems bright.īut soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform’s ever-changing moderating guidelines. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed.It’s gruelling work. That’s why she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. ‘Taut as a thriller, sharp as a slug of ice-cold vodka’ – Irish TimesTo be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst – but Kayleigh needs money. ‘A glimpse of the foetid underbelly of the internet’ – The Times ![]() Lizzie Pickering – Author Signing and Talk.A Year in Books – Reading Subscriptions.Reading Together – Books for Book Clubs. ![]()
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