Content moderation

In Kate Folk's 2025 novel Sky Daddy, a moderator is happy to be paid $20 an hour to flatter a machine that would soon replace me.

Elaine Castillo's 2025 novel Moderation follows a longtime contractor who feels that no one was better than a content moderator at dissociation.

And the April 2026 remake of cult horror movie Faces of Death stars Barbie Ferreira as a crusading content moderator who tells new hires what to do when they see alarming content.

Don't discuss it.

A selected sources section at the end of Berowitz's We Had to Remove This Post states that any resemblance to reality is not accidental.

She also recommends strongly to anyone interested in learning more about this topic a list of documentaries, books, and articles, including work by Newton, Chen, and UCLA professor and leading scholar of content moderation, Sarah T. Roberts.

In an acknowledgments section at the end of Moderation, Castillo notes that several books and articles, including Chen's, were of great aid in the world-building of this book.

Folk, in an interview, pointed to a book by Roberts, who herself has said the 2010 New York Times article on Moderation got her interested in the field.