so it's about 900 p.m. you know and I go on Instagram to post a video like always but when the video goes live comment started flooding in saying reals turned dark why am I seeing and fights on my algorithm bro Instagram turned into a Gore site and reading these my heart dropped because I suddenly thought holy Alex has left something in the video that I didn't check over so I go through the post once again and there's nothing was perfect so I head over to the reals Tab and I kid you not and I screen recorded it it took one swipe to find out what everyone was talking about and I shouldn't have clicked that Cal button but like every single one of you I did and I regret it and the more I scrolled the more sensitive content I received I was even already getting memes about the sensitive content I was seeing how the devil works hard but meme Pages work harder and some of these memes had millions of likes suggesting that this was happening to everyone and turns out something did go very wrong at Instagram because meta have just come out and admitted it and apologized but unfortunately it doesn't end there because after digging a little deeper this might actually be way worse than just this one time glitch because Instagram has recently made very big changes on how they moderate content One Step might have left the platform more vulnerable than ever and it gets worse because behind the scenes the moderators responsible for keeping Instagram clean are facing a dark and traumatizing reality one that no one's really talking about so let's get into all of that and more subscribe or face a dangerous whipping in fact listen to Jedi duck edits guys look you got to sub or else he will find out where you live after all he's a news channel so news channels have access to that kind of stuff play it safe and subscribe I wouldn't risk it I wouldn't risk it either so let's stop the app and let's get okay so if you've been on Instagram recently I'm sure you've come across you know some mildly but most likely severely disturbing content because social media was flooded yesterday with people saying that their real feed was packed with some of the most horrific videos known to men Alex get ready to do a lot of bleeping okay because YouTube moderators they're still working and they're working overtime ready woman giving birth gunshots uncensored violence accidents animal attacks ar oh my gosh killed by an elephant falling from a roller coaster have we all seen a baby born today 21k likes Instagram is scary today today bro so many people are talking about some elephant video no okay I don't want I don't want to see it one bro said I think Judgment Day is near oh how bad how bad were the videos that that bro saw but you know it that's kind of fair because unlike someone like X it's the gore and the violence and all of that kind of stuff somewhat expected and key distinction seven-year-olds are not using X and if they are then we got a bigger problem than the videos but on Instagram specifically reals kids are not just on there kids are like creators now here's how I make a lot of friends every year in school don't be scared to say words words is how you make friends kids are freaking dropping knowledge on this app of like how to make friends at school now they're scrolling on reals watching school okay that's too far that's too far I would say it but it's somewhat truthful point is if there's anywhere that cannot have a moderation mistake like they did today it is reals and Tik Tok but definitely reals I their comments are wild enough as it is let alone you got the videos to match some users said that they saw this graphic content even with Instagram's sensitive content control enabled to its highest moderation sensitivity and it's still made its way through through so what the hell happened around the world well for a while no one knew some speculated a hack and other said it was just a random glitch but then meta swooped on in to save the day and they gave us very detailed and reassuring explanation a meta spokesperson said in a statement shared with CNBC we have fixed an error that has caused some users to see Con in their feed that should not have been recommended we apologize for the mistake that's that's it that's l it what the hell you are out here traumatizing children and all you can tell us was that it was UN error and that it was a mistake whose mistake and and what caused it to specifically recommend the most horrific videos on the internet and not like I don't know fluffy cat videos why that well that's where things get interesting because this recent surge of disturbing content on Instagram might not have been just a little one-off glitch sorry error but rather part of a much bigger and longer-lasting change because you see last month meta Instagram's parent company made significant changes to its content moderation policies good old Zuck said on Joe Rogan said that for years meta relied too much on AI to decide what gets taken down and because of that a bunch of accounts were getting banned for what he said was no good reason and that just because AI thought that they broke the rules and you know as a Creator myself I do somewhat relate to that you if your literal career can be destroyed overnight because AI makes a mistake then that is freaking terrifying and that's happened many many times before so to fix that he has said that he's decided to scale back the ai's control and essentially let more stuff stay up the reason for that well he wanted to push more free speech he also ended their third party factchecking program and replaced you with Community notes similar to the ones that they use on X and I guess ultimately the point is he admitted that those changes May at meta would mean that more bad content stays up now I don't know what lever they pulled yesterday in testing these new moderation changes but please that is not the Free Speech we wanted also and this could be a coincidence but it's kind of interesting at the same time all of these wild posts were getting through the moderators news came out that Instagram is reportedly preparing to launch a standalone separate reals app like kind of like Tik Tok according to a source familiar with their plans Instagram's efforts to take on Tik Tok are part of an initiative code named project Ray which includes improving recommendations for new users so perhaps in testing how to work out this new app and improving the recommendations someone flipped the a very wrong switch but you know talking about the people behind the scenes the moderators and stuff this is where in the part of my research where things got holy so incredibly dark and I I I'm shocked that I never thought about this or knew it because while you and I might have been exposed to some horrific content for a few hours maybe a day there are people that see this kind of stuff every single day and it is their job Instagram Facebook Tik Tok all these platforms rely on tens of thousands of human moderators to filter out the worst things imaginable stuff that AI simply can't detect properly and these aren't high paid experts sitting in fancy offices most of them are low paid workers in places like Colombia Kenya and the Philippines some of them make as little as $150 an hour to sit through endless streams of violence exploitation and just real life horror and they don't get to look away like We Do they have to watch analyze and decide whether this video needs to stay up or not one former Tik Tok moderator Claudia said that she was forced to watch so many disturbing videos of people eating live animals that she literally developed a phobia and had panic attacks at work she said that she tried to get help through Tik tok's mental health support program but it took them 2 months before they even responded and when they finally did they basically told her yeah we can't help go try your local Health Care system and this kind of experience the more that I looked into turns out it's normal for moderators which is horrific another moderator candy Fraser said that she had to review videos for 12 hours a day that included oh my my gosh Alex ready for the beeps animals holy she said that she suffers from significant psychological trauma including anxiety depression and post-traumatic stress disorder no shock there I don't think humans are made to be exposed to that kind of we're not even made to be exposed to what's on social media let alone the stuff that doesn't make it onto social media 12 hours a day that is insane that this job roll exists I know it has to to protect us but it's insane she is now also suing Tik Tok for failing to protect employees mental health another worker Lewis said that his company puts out this big corporate video about how they care about their employees mental health but he says in reality their so-called support system was basically just a Big Show and then just recently more than 140 Facebook content moderators have been diagnosed with severe PTSD caused by the exposure and are now also suing meta for damages oh and if the mental toll wasn't bad enough they're also being worked like machines one moderator said that his job required him to watch 900 videos a day with only 15 seconds per video to decide if it should get taken down and if he didn't hit that number his pay would get docked $150 an hour getting docked is insane and the worst part is that a lot of these platforms they know it's happening one of these experts straight up said If you're looking only at the money AI cannot compete with paying someone $180 an hour cuz it's cheaper to just use humans that are already there than having to build all of these expensive AI uh models and stuff like that that's just for a reminder Instagram yeah they may have fixed their little glitch that they had yesterday but for the people behind the scenes the ones that are keeping the worst of humanity away from us they are stuck in this cycle watching the absolute worst of humanity just a scrape by on freaking $18 an hour wages that is crazy and you know if this is the system that is in place then maybe Instagram's dark res day kind of just like a symptom of a much bigger problem that not a lot of us even know about so I mean that turned really dark it was kind of fitting for the whole video I guess but what do you guys think did you even know that this kind of stuff existed did meta completely screw up with their changes now that they're going more to human moderators and less to AI should these big tech companies be doing more to protect their employees and their moderators if so what could they do how do you solve this problem let me know in the comments but I think that's about it for today remember subscribe to the channel if you like the video because more of these come in your way and I will see you [Music] soon so let's stop the app and let's get Ken oh my lights