"What I didn't know was that the role would require me to assume multiple fabricated identities, and use pseudo profiles created by the company to engage in intimate and explicit conversations with lonely men and women,"
"Sometimes I would be assigned a conversation that had been ongoing for several days and had to continue it smoothly so the user wouldn't realize the person responding had changed,"
"romantic and intimate conversations on platforms I'd never heard of."
A Kenyan man, Michael Geoffrey Asia, worked as a text chat operator for the Australian firm New Media Services to support his family in the Mathare slums after failing to find aviation work. The role required assuming multiple fabricated identities and using pseudo profiles to engage in intimate and explicit conversations with lonely men and women on unfamiliar platforms. Assigned conversations sometimes continued across days and demanded seamless continuity so users would not detect a change in interlocutor. Workloads involved handling three to five different personas per day across varying genders, meeting per-message pay of $0.05, character-count requirements, and a minimum typing speed.
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