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If you can locate the article, I'd love to give it a read.

I'd rather keep my money inside US borders, but it ain't cheap, and staring at the sickening contents of the internet's collective wet dream ain't exactly a high-profile career path for young folks.



Here's one: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

"Hemanshu Nigam, the former chief security officer of MySpace who now runs online safety consultancy SSP Blue, estimates that the number of content moderators scrubbing the world’s social media sites, mobile apps, and cloud storage services runs to “well over 100,000”—that is, about twice the total head count of Google and nearly 14 times that of Facebook."




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