China’s Content Moderators Are Overworked and Chronically Stressed

China wants to keep its cyberspace “clean” — and there’s an army of workers tasked with sanitizing the country’s virtual world. Hired by top domestic internet companies, the so-called content moderators spend excruciatingly long hours scrubbing anything associated with horror, violence, pornography, and information deemed politically sensitive or offensive. They review a barrage of user-generated