About 190 Kenyans who have been contracted for moderating duties at Facebook are suing its parent company, Meta, with more than 140 being diagnosed with “severe PTSD” and other mental health disorders due to the work, according to a report.

The moderators, who work 8-10 hours a day and are paid a fraction of what moderators in the United States are paid, were contracted to check posts and photos for content that violates Facebook’s terms of service, according to the Guardian.

The moderators suffer from severe stress, anxiety, and depressive disorders after being exposed to violent photos, including ones depicting self-harm, suicide, murder, sexual abuse, and terrorism, according to the report. Such content would cause some moderators to vomit, scream, faint, or run away from their desks.

The moderators are also suing Samasource Kenya, the company that contracted them for moderating duties at Facebook, according to the report.

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The lawsuit alleges their moderating duties exposed them to “intentional infliction of mental harm, unfair employment practices, human trafficking and modern slavery and unlawful redundancy,” according to the report, and that, in addition to long working hours and having their duties micromanaged to the minute, litigants feared for their lives because a large quantity of the posts they moderated were from local terrorist groups.

The moderators were contracted from 2019 to 2023.