A brilliant peek behind the curtains at what happens when we put our trust in social media. The novel is fast-paced and thrilling, violent and nightmarish and grief-stricken, but also tender and wildly moving. Hanna Bervoets has created an astonishing and compelling cast of characters, drawn together through circumstance, separated by the same. Believe me when I say you've never read anything like it.' - Kristen Arnett, New York Times -bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth, Praise for We Had to Remove This Post ' We Had To Remove This Post is one of the most fascinating books I've read in years.

Fascinating and disturbing.' - Ling Ma, author of Severance ' We Had To Remove This Post is one of the most fascinating books I've read in years.

Agent: Lisette Verhagen, PFD Literary.Praise for We Had to Remove This Post 'This novel gives us an acid glimpse into a new form of labor existing today, a job that extracts an immeasurable psychic toll.

The story is brief, but it packs a wallop. Whether carefully dissecting ever-evolving corporate rules or chronicling a night at the bar with her workmates (“we pour our leftovers into each other’s half-empty glasses”), Kayleigh is an engaging narrator. After Kayleigh quits, a lawyer hounds her to join a lawsuit against the platform along with other former employees, and Bervoets frames the story like a mystery, slowly revealing the fractured relationships and circumstances that drove Kayleigh away from her job. While adjusting to the job, she meets Sigrid, a fellow moderator, and the pair start dating, but as weeks pass, exposure to thousands of horrifying videos-among them graphically described clips of self-harm, animal abuse, and praise of the Holocaust-takes its toll, pushing some moderators to their mental edges and inspiring others to subscribe to “flat Earther” conspiracy theories. Along with a ragtag team, she spends her days watching disturbing videos and flagging those that break the platform’s guidelines. Kayleigh, in need of cash to pay off credit card debt, takes a job at Hexa, a subcontractor for an unnamed video platform. Bervoet’s fleeting yet magnetic English-language debut offers a glimpse into the world of social media content moderators.

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