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      "text": "TASK reports revenue in Content Security. This business recently come under scrutiny in a NY Times article highlighting that companies like Facebook depend on outsourced providers like Accenture and TASK to moderate offensive content on their social media properties.(1) This can result in a psychological impact to workers having to make challenging decisions in moderating offensive content (eg. homicide, suicide, torture, etc). The article says that Facebook uses multiple firms and TASK's reported Content Security segment growth rate shows signs of business slowing. This could suggest that Facebook is insourcing some of the work, consolidating, or redistributing it to other vendors.",
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