WHAT IS NORMAL?WHAT IS RIGHT?AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE?To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worstbut Kayleigh needs money. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isnt allowed to mention. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. Its grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platforms ever-changing moderating guidelines. Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and she finds in her colleagues a group of friendseven a new girlfriendand 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 ThisPost 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.
