“There are surely some content moderators that haven't suffered mental health problems connected to the job, but I haven't met them,” says sociologist and computer scientist Milagros Miceli, who has studied the content moderation industry for the past six years. “I have no doubt that content moderation, like coal mining, is a hazardous job.” Coal mining, known for the proliferation of ‘black lung disease', is a classic example of a hazardous job, but there are only approximately 200,000 coal (…)
That it’s significantly less hazardous than coal mining and comparing it so doesn’t do the discussion the problem needs any favours.
The researcher in question is part of an institution that is negotiating a 5y research tender renovation so they are just going with stupid shit like this.