Facebook Content Moderator Claims PTSD from having to watch toxic images all day

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Who would have thought a worker could get PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) just sitting at a computer. But that's what a now former Facebook content moderator says has happened to her. Selena Scola was one of 7,500 moderators responsible for viewing and removing posts that violate Facebook standards, and she says it was brutal. She is suing her former employer claiming that her job caused “constant and unmitigated exposure to highly toxic and extremely disturbing images at the workplace.” I don't know about the merits of Scola's PTSD claim, but I think this tells us a lot about the society we live in today. Scola says in her suit, “Every day, Facebook users post millions of videos, images and livestreamed broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide and murder.” What kind of world have we become where millions of "ordinary" individuals find satisfaction in exposing other people, children included, to that kind of trash? Is social media stimulating that kind of disturbed mentality, or just revealing a mental and spiritual sickness that was already there? Image credit: geralt via Pixabay (Public Domain)