Meta content moderation businesses are impacted by worldwide cyber outages

A global technology outage that paralyzed airports, banks and hospitals on Friday affected some outside vendors responsible for monitoring content on Facebook owner Meta's ( META.O ) Open New Tab platform, a Meta spokesman said in response to a Reuters query.

The social media giant experienced an SEV1 due to the outage, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, using Meta terminology to denote a "Code Red"-like warning related to a high-risk system issue that requires immediate attention. Some outside vendors responsible for monitoring content on Facebook owner Meta ( META.O ) opened new tab platforms after a global technology outage that paralyzed airports, banks and hospitals on Friday, a Meta spokesman said in response to a Reuters query.

The social media giant experienced SEV1 as a result of the outage, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, using Meta terminology for a "Code Red"-like warning related to a high-risk system issue that Meta staff had to manually review. , but most are outsourced to business service providers who employ legions of low-wage workers who screen reports for hate speech, violence and other violations of company rules. Sources told Reuters that Friday's alert included vendors accessing two systems that Meta uses to route content flagged as censored to moderators, SRT and HumanOps.