Editing Content moderation (section)

=== Industrial composition ===
The content moderation industry is estimated to be worth US$9 billion. While no official numbers are provided, there are an estimates 10,000 content moderators for [[TikTok]]; 15,000 for [[Facebook]] and 1,500 for [[Twitter]] as of 2022.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Wamai |first1=Jacqueline Wambui |last2=Kalume |first2=Maureen Chadi |last3=Gachuki |first3=Monicah |last4=Mukami |first4=Agnes |year=2023 |title=A new social contract for the social media platforms: prioritizing rights and working conditions for content creators and moderators {{!}} International Labour Organization |url=https://www.ilo.org/publications/new-social-contract-social-media-platforms-prioritizing-rights-and-working |journal=[[International Journal of Labour Research]] |language=en |publisher=[[International Labour Organization]] |volume=12 |issue=1–2 |access-date=2024-07-21}}</ref>

The [[global value chain]] of content moderation typically includes social media platforms, large [[Multinational corporation|MNE]] firms and the content moderation suppliers. The social media platforms (e.g Facebook, Google) are largely based in the United States, Europe and China. The MNEs (e.g [[Accenture]], [[Foiwe]]) are usually headquartered in the global north or India while suppliers of content moderation are largely located in [[Global North and Global South|global southern]] countries like India and the Philippines.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Ahmad |first1=Sana |title=Moderating in Obscurity: How Indian Content Moderators Work in Global Content Moderation Value Chains |date=2022 |work=Digital Work in the Planetary Market |pages=77–95 |editor-last=Graham |editor-first=Mark |editor-last2=Ferrari |editor-first2=Fabian |url=https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/256896 |access-date=2024-07-22 |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |isbn=978-0-262-36982-4 |last2=Krzywdzinski |first2=Martin}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=79–81}}

While at one time this work may have been done by volunteers within the online community, for commercial websites this is largely achieved through [[outsourcing]] the task to specialized companies, often in low-wage areas such as India and the Philippines. Outsourcing of content moderation jobs grew as a result of the [[Timeline of social media|social media boom]]. With the overwhelming growth of users and UGC, companies needed many more employees to moderate the content. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, tech companies began to outsource jobs to foreign countries that had an educated workforce but were willing to work for cheap.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Elliott|first1=Vittoria|last2=Parmar|first2=Tekendra|title="The darkness and despair of people will get to you"|url=https://restofworld.org/2020/facebook-international-content-moderators/|website=rest of world|date=22 July 2020 }}</ref>