We Had To Remove This Post

by Hanna Bervoets

Hardcover, 144 pages

English language

Published May 24, 2022 by Harper.

ISBN:: 978-0-358-62236-9

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(8 reviews)

WHAT IS “NORMAL”?

WHAT IS “RIGHT”?

AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE?

To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst—but Kayleigh needs money. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn’t allowed to mention. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. It’s grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform’s ever-changing moderating guidelines. Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and she finds in her colleagues a group of friends—even a new girlfriend—and for the first time in her life, her future seems bright.

But soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. How long before the moderators’ own senses of right and wrong begin to …

WHAT IS “NORMAL”?

WHAT IS “RIGHT”?

AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE?

But soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. How long before the moderators’ own senses of right and wrong begin to bend and flex?

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anka.trini reviewed We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

Too short

2 stars

I never say this but this book should've been longer. Or it should've been even shorter and gotten rid off that stupid love story.

Basically, this book is like an underdeveloped Black Mirror episode. Don't recommend. It's not controversial enough, it doesn't go deep enough, it doesn't have a satisfying ending. The writing style uses shocking language just for the sake of it.

Luckily, I only spent about three hours with this audio book.

I never say this but this book should've been longer. Or it should've been even shorter and gotten rid off that stupid love story.

Luckily, I only spent about three hours with this audio book.

Brian Plunkett reviewed We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

We Had to Remove This Post - 3.5 Stars

3 stars

(Read in 2023) 3.5 stars. I thought this was good - timely, challenging, insightful and well-written - and mostly enjoyed it, but I didn't think the ending worked very well.

EMR reviewed We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

Review of 'We Had To Remove This Post' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I feel like once again I've been suckered in by slick packaging. "surely this won't be another shaggy dog story like Universal Harvester." But here we are. Whatever impression We Had To Remove This Post was supposed to leave, I just didn't see. Maybe it was too subtle, or too short, or lost in translation. The twists felt barely earned and we feel told rather than shown about the shocking stuff, so it's hard for us to empathize with the characters.