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Crowdwork and microtask platforms — Clarity Today

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Crowdwork and microtask platforms

Microtask marketplaces such as Mechanical Turk, the workers who depend on them for income, and advocacy around platform working conditions.

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product1 distinct publisher

Amazon closes Mechanical Turk on 30 September, and MTurk-shaped pipelines have five weeks

The banner says the closure is permanent. Requesters who wired human review into their stack get 35 days, and the firms that replaced MTurk do not sell what MTurk sold.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

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Adoption44
Hype gap+14
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