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Facebook agreed to $52 million court settlement to compensate content moderators who suffered mental trauma

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Social media giant Facebook has agreed to $52 million court settlement to compensate content moderators who suffered mental trauma from the graphic and violent images they were required to review. The class-action lawsuit filed in 2018 claimed that the content reviewers were subject to psychological trauma from the graphic and violent content such as child sexual abuse, beheadings, terrorism etc.