Facebook has agreed to pay $52m (£42m) to current and former content moderators in a preliminary settlement. Facebook has also agreed to provide more counseling opportunities; to screen candidates for emotional resiliency, and to introduce tools to lessen the psychological impact of viewing graphic violence.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that social media companies have been under pressure to stamp out harmful content on their platforms, including state-backed disinformation, murder, and torture videos and images of child exploitation.

Facebook has attempted to stem the proliferation of this content with a combination of automated detection systems and thousands of human moderators (employees and contractors) who view content and decide whether or not it should be allowed to remain on the platform.