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There are four shifts at the cognizant facility in Phoenix. The early shift starts at 7 a.m.

Miguel might get in at 7 a.m. and after he badges through security, he needs to put all of his

personal items in a locker. You're not allowed to bring a phone or a pencil onto what cognizant calls

the production floor because they don't want you to be tempted to write down the personal

information of any of the people's content who you might be reviewing. So he gets to his desk,

which is not permanently assigned to him. There are about 300 people who are going to work here

today and because of high turnover and other reasons, it's easier to just make people kind of

find a new desk when they get in. And when he's ready to start looking at content, he clicks a button,

labeled resume reviewing inside a custom piece of software called the single review tool. And from

there, almost anything could happen. He could look at something totally benign. He could look at

a decapitation. He could look at child exploitation. He could look at any number of really,

really disturbing things. And he has no advance warning of what he's going to see before it pops

up on his screen. Once he sees it though, his job is to decide as quickly as he can, whether it

violates many of Facebook's policies, which are voluminous and ever changing.

For this task, Miguel will be paid $15 an hour, which comes out to an annual salary of $28,800

a year. And that compares to median compensation at Facebook, which is $240,000 a year if you include

salary, stock, and bonuses. Casey Newton reports on Facebook for the verge, and for the past few

months, he's been talking to Facebook moderators. These are the people who screen the social network

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