Mark Zuckerberg's wealth compared to Facebook content moderator wages - Business Insider

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A congressperson dared Mark Zuckerberg to spend an hour a day moderating Facebook. If he took the dare, he'd make 65,000 times as much as a typical moderator would in that hour.

psychologically taxing jobWe compared Zuckerberg's increase in wealth over the last year to the wages earned by the contractors who moderate Facebook posts to see how much he would make during an hour of reviewing potentially offensive content.

Of course, chief executives of massive corporations rarely do this type of frontline work, instead spending their time guiding and directing company policy at a much higher level. While Rep. Porter was clearly making a larger point to Zuckerberg about the challengers facing content moderators, it's unlikely that a CEO would spend his or her time on this type of day-to-day labor.

We decided to take a look at how much Zuckerberg would make in an hour per day moderating content, compared to the wages offered to the contractors and employees who regularly do the work.

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doing it for 10 days in a row, hour per day or sth like that? Wouldn’t be bad neither for Zuck neither for FB.

Yes of course... because he’s the CEO, not a moderator. He has a whole raft of company defining responsibilities to manage 🙄

That really didn't seem to be the point of the questioning.

I would have thought that it would have been a million times more

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