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 bend and flex? From one of the most acclaimed Dutch writers of her generation
We Had to Remove This Post is a chilling powerful and urgent literary masterpiece about who
or what determines our worldview who sets the boundaries and just how much a person can be
asked to accept.
