Roger Schawinski is a media pioneer and runs the radio stations Radio 1 and Planet 105. His latest non-fiction book, which deals with the No-Billag vote, will be published by Wörterseh-Verlag in January.
This is what the world of work 4.0 looks like: being cleaned by robots. However, the virtual garbage dump of the digital revolution still requires human skills. The wages of these content germany rcs data moderators - "average age 28" and "mostly with a migrant background" - come from money that Facebook and YouTube make from selling advertising. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, generated revenue of 26 billion dollars in the second quarter of 2017 almost exclusively from advertising.
These internet giants should be careful not to treat their content moderators too badly. Good working conditions and appropriate compensation would be appropriate. Because these employees will be scarred by the brutal images for the rest of their lives. And at the same time, they ensure that the environment on Facebook or YouTube is clean and tidy enough for the ads of large advertisers who are increasingly concerned about brand safety after the incidents in recent months.