?A superbly poised psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling.' Ian McEwan
author of Atonement To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst - but Kayleigh
needs money. That's why she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she
isn't allowed to mention. Her job: reviewing offensive videos and pictures rants and
conspiracy theories and deciding which need to be removed. It's gruelling 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 in her
colleagues she finds a group of friends even a new girlfriend ? and for the first time in her
life Kayleigh's future seems bright. But soon the job seems to change them all shifting
their worlds in alarming ways. How long before the moderators' own morals bend and flex under
the weight of what they see? We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets is a chilling
powerful and gripping story about who or what determines our world-view. Examining the toxic
world of content moderation the novel forces us to ask: what is right? What is real? What is
normal? And who gets to decide? Translated from the original Dutch by Emma Rault. ?Fast paced
and thrilling violent and nightmarish and grief-stricken but also tender and wildly moving.'
Kristen Arnett author of Mostly Dead Things ?This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new
form of labor existing today . . . Fascinating and disturbing.' Ling Ma author of Severance
