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Former TikTok moderator James Oyange. [File, Standard]

The feeling of anxiety engulfs James Oyange every time he attends a football match. The screams and cheers from fans bring back dark memories of the content he moderated for Tiktok.

He had been employed by a business processing company called Majorel in Nairobi as a content moderator. His job entailed weeding out harmful content such as child pornography, bestiality, necrophilia ( being sexually attracted to corpses), and self-harm among others. The purpose of the job was to shield Tiktok users from harm's way.

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