We Had To Remove This Post - Hanna Bervoets
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We Had To Remove This Post

Updated: 7 Jul 2023
Does what you see change who you are?‘A superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling’ - Ian McEwan, author of AtonementKayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the first time in her life, the future seems bright . . . But soon the job begins to shift Kayleigh’s world in alarming ways. In the glare of the screen, how long can Kayleigh hold on to her humanity?Hanna Bervoets' stunning novel We Had To Remove This Post is translated from the Dutch by Emma Rault.‘This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today . . . Fascinating and disturbing’ - Ling Ma, author of Severance
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…I’d like turned into a Netflix show: We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets. A crazy milieu. A group of young people work shifts for a tech company, taking down disgusting or false posts. Daily confrontations with the worst in human nature drives them to drink and through shifting relationships.
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