March 13, 2025
American Sweatshop review: A cyberthriller for the doomscrolling age
Have you ever seen something online you just couldn’t shake? Sometimes a video rolls across our FYP or timeline that’s inexplicably violent, and before we can blink or look away, it’s scorched into our brains. Now, imagine if your job was to not look away. You’d be a content moderator, underpaid to watch one revolting video after another to determine if they meet your company’s dubious user guidelines. This is the modern hell of the sharp and smart thriller American Sweatshop. Riverdale‘s Lili Reinhart stars as Daisy, a young woman whose days are spent approving or deleting videos shared on