Another interview conducted as part of the same project described how Syrian digital workers in Germany had to filter and review images of their own home towns, destroyed by the recent earthquake in the region—and, in some cases, the ruins of their former homes.footnote13 They were deemed too violent for social media consumers, but not for the region’s inhabitants, who had been expelled by war and destruction and were forced to become ghostworkers in exile. Conveniently, military violence had provided digital corporations located in Germany with a new, supremely exploitable refugee workforce.
[^13]: This interview was conducted by Marie Serah Ebcinoglu.

