Facebook moderators are taking their fight for better conditions to the Irish parliament.
Experts have warned more support is needed for the social media giant’s moderators who are employed by outsourcing firms, and that a change of model in the way graphic content is handled is “desperately” needed.
It will be the first time a social media moderator has given evidence to a parliamentary committee.
Former moderators have told
The National they had to assess up to 1,000 posts per shift, including disturbing images, against hundreds of criteria, and that they were expected to achieve 98 per cent accuracy.
The Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment is due to hear evidence on Wednesday from a Dublin-based moderator, the Communication Workers Union and the director of advocacy group Foxglove, Cori Crider.
Alastair Campbell – @PeterStefanovi2 video has had over 17 million views of Boris Johnson lying… what can the Speaker do in those circumstances?
John Bercow – The Speaker has very limited powers.. none of Johnson s 4 predecessors deliberately mislead the HoC.#GMBpic.twitter.com/Rx427T1qGd Haggis UK (@Haggis UK) May 11, 2021
The former speaker went on to ask whether in this new age of “insouciant disregard for truth and accuracy” there is a need to reinvigorate the house by adding to and replenishing the powers of the chair. People will assume there are things said in parliament that turn out not to be true. @susannareid100, @campbellclaret and former speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow debate the allegations that Boris Johnson lied to parliament. pic.twitter.com/W8Eel8dCw2 Good Morning Britain (@GMB) May 11, 2021
As Labour descends into civil war, some of the sharpest post-election criticism of Sir Keir Starmer has come from the Blairite wing of the party.
Lord Adonis, who was Blair’s policy chief, has called for Starmer to go. But is Momentum, the hard-Left organisation set up to bolster Jeremy Corbyn’s ill-fated leadership, limbering up to provide his replacement?
After Corbyn announced his exit, it was assumed Momentum would wither and die, but I hear it has been quietly rebuilding. In fact, accounts for the organisation show its financial affairs have never been in better health.
According to documents filed at Companies House by Momentum Campaign Services Limited, there was £167,000 in the bank in December 2018. But by end of 2019 that figure had jumped to £641,000. The number of employees is also up from 21 to 30.
The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) Greater Accra Chapter, has rewarded 21 workers for their sacrifices at the 2021 Regional May Day ceremony for their “exceptional duties and sacrifices they made to the Nation”.
They: Mr. Steven Nimo, Accra Branch Chairman, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union; Mr. John Abolatsi, Writer of Professional Humanitarian Sub- Union; Mr. Nicholas A. Akyaa, Health Service Workers Union; Mr. Martin Kofi Boateng, Public Service Workers Union; and Mr. God Fred Agyeman Boakye, Public Service Workers Union.
Others were Mr. Paul Akoba, General Agriculture Workers Union; Mr Seth Conney, Public Utility Workers Union; Mr. Emmanuel Asare, Public Utility Workers Union; Ms. Rita Lamptey, Union of Industry, Commerce and Finance Workers; Mr. Kenneth Anoma, Communication Workers Union; and Mr. Alhassan Musah Osman, Dean of Presiding Members Ghana, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union.
“This is not a question of occasional inaccuracies or a misleading use of figures: it is a consistent failure to be honest with the facts, or to correct wrong information at the earliest opportunity when misleading information is given,” they wrote. “This, we believe, amounts to a contempt of the house.”
Referencing comments by Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross, who said on Sunday that Johnson should “of course” resign if found to have breached the ministerial code over the funding of the lavish renovation of his Downing Street flat, Stefanovic said his video proves the prime minister has “already broken [the code] over and over and over again”.