'Always on trauma machine': Social media managers grapple with burnout, leaving the industry

More social media managers are exiting their roles because of the long hours, low pay and endless scrolling through hateful comments. And today’s starkly polarized political climate is only adding fuel to the fire, according to social media managers. Typically, when catastrophe strikes, advertisers and social media managers hit pause on their content. But last week was a wakeup call for strategist Amy Brown, who said the last decade of her career has been a “front row seat to the rise of the alt-right and QAnon” and like “watching a car crash in slow motion.” Read more below.

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