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Marte Hodne Haugen

Content Moderator (2022)

Content Moderator takes inspiration from Marte Hodne Haugen’s previous work as a content moderator, working for one of the world's biggest social media platforms. Based on the company’s rules, the moderators decide whether controversial content containing, amongst others, violence, pornography, online bullying, racism or threats of suicide should be deleted or stay up. The job is paid poorly and often done by young people, or those who don’t have many other opportunities in the job market.

The music video touches on the mental health impacts of consuming such a massive quantity of real violent imagery, in addition to our rights to safety online and to safety in the workplace. Everyone who participated in the video is a former colleague from Haugen’s time working as a moderator.

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Content Moderator

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Artist name: Marte Hodne Haugen
Title: Content Moderator
Year: 2022
Medium: Music video
Duration: 8 minutes

Credit: Marte Hodne Haugen, Content Moderator, 2022. Contributors: Frida Hallberg, Melker Appelquist, S.Jacobsen, Gyrd Guleng, Bruno Berlaver. Commissioned and produced by Marte Hodne Haugen. Selected for AFI’26 by Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway.

Content Moderator (2022)

Content Moderator takes inspiration from Marte Hodne Haugen’s previous work as a content moderator, working for one of the world's biggest social media platforms. Based on the company’s rules, the moderators decide whether controversial content containing, amongst others, violence, pornography, online bullying, racism or threats of suicide should be deleted or stay up. The job is paid poorly and often done by young people, or those who don’t have many other opportunities in the job market.

The music video touches on the mental health impacts of consuming such a massive quantity of real violent imagery, in addition to our rights to safety online and to safety in the workplace. Everyone who participated in the video is a former colleague from Haugen’s time working as a moderator.

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Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway say:

Content Moderator takes inspiration from Marte Hodne Haugen’s previous work as a content moderator, working for one of the world's biggest social media platforms. Based on the company’s rules, the moderators decide whether controversial content containing, amongst others, violence, pornography, online bullying, racism or threats of suicide should be deleted or stay up. The job is paid poorly and often done by young people, or those who don’t have many other opportunities in the job market.

Details:
Artist name: Marte Hodne Haugen
Title: Content Moderator
Year: 2022
Medium: Music video
Duration: 8 minutes

Credit: Marte Hodne Haugen, Content Moderator, 2022. Contributors: Frida Hallberg, Melker Appelquist, S.Jacobsen, Gyrd Guleng, Bruno Berlaver. Commissioned and produced by Marte Hodne Haugen. Selected for AFI’26 by Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway.