Thank you Pan Macmillan picador for both. Bervoets does try to flesh out the world which surrounds content moderation, but the core questions she proposes (who, or what, determines our worldview, what is normal?) are questions we have been asking throughout the 2010s and are, perhaps, no longer enough to fuel a novella. 53 Likes, TikTok video from chaddyreadsbooks (chaddyreadsbooks1): 'We had to remove this post by Hanna Bervoets. That’s not to say that the writing isn’t good, with clean sentences and well-developed characters. It's sad that this novella can be picked up, read, and shrugged off as old news. ‘This book grabs you by the throat’ nu.
Bervoets won the 2009 Debutant of the Year Award for her first novel Or, How, Why. Her columns for Volkskrant Magazine, collected in That’s Nice, Bye, are hugely popular in the Netherlands. The internet has changed how we think, the internet’s normal has become our normal. Hanna Bervoets writes novels, columns and scripts. As it stands, in 2022, we are all too aware that our brains are desensitised, and that is no longer a surprise. This new idea of our brains being numbed by the internet was fresh and horrifying, but we struggled through it (by consuming more content). Back then, we, as a society, were shocked by the idea of being desensitised.
If published a few years ago, it would have more impact, provoke more thought. How long before the moderators' own senses of right and wrong begin to bend and flex?įrom 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and just how much a person can be asked to accept.The thing about this novella, though, is that it feels somewhat out-of-date. 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.īut soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, 2021 - 94 pages. To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst - but Kayleigh needs money. Widely acclaimed in the Netherlands, Bervoets is the author of nine books and was recently awarded the Frans Kellendonk Prize for her body of work.
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