For readers of Leila Slimani\'s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma\'s Severance : a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors--reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation--who convince themselves they\'re in control .
She\'s still totally fine, though--or is she?.
But when her colleagues begin to break down; when Sigrid, her new girlfriend, grows increasingly distant and fragile; when her friends start espousing the very conspiracy theories they\'re meant to be evaluating
Kayleigh begins to wonder if the job may be too much for them.
Yet Kayleigh finds a group of friends, even a new love--and, somehow, the job starts to feel okay.
Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform\'s ever-changing terms of service while a supervisor sits behind them, timing and scoring their assessments.
It\'s grueling work.
Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and deciding which need to be removed.
That\'s why she takes a job as a content moderator for a social media platform whose name she isn\'t allowed to mention.
Kayleigh needs money. until the violence strikes closer to home. . .
For readers of Leila Slimani\'s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma\'s Severance : a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors--reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation--who convince themselves they\'re in control
