
Facebook Failed to Protect 30 Million Users From Having Their Data Harvested by Trump Campaign Affiliate
IN 2014, TRACES of an unusual survey, connected to Facebook, began appearing on internet message boards. The boards were frequented by remote freelance workers who bid on human intelligence tasks in an online marketplace, called Mechanical Turk, controlled by Amazon. The turkers, as theyre known, tend to perform work that is rote and repetitive, like flagging pornographic images or digging through search engine results for email addresses. Most jobs pay between 1 and 15 cents. Turking makes us our rent money and helps pay off debt, one turker told The Intercept. Another turker has called the work voluntarily slave labor.
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