In early May, Facebook said it was hiring an additional 3,000 people to identify and remove violent and hateful content.
The announcement came after several people posted videos of murders and suicides that stayed on Facebook for hours.
In a Facebook post, CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg called the videos “heartbreaking.” He said the new employees will work with about 4,500 existing ones to find and remove such content as quickly as possible.
Facebook receives millions of reports about content each week, said Zuckerberg.
In addition to humans, the company uses technical tools to identify questionable material. But with Facebook’s nearly 2 billion monthly active users, identifying and blocking banned content is difficult.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103695315624661
The announcement came after several people posted videos of murders and suicides that stayed on Facebook for hours.
In a Facebook post, CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg called the videos “heartbreaking.” He said the new employees will work with about 4,500 existing ones to find and remove such content as quickly as possible.
Facebook receives millions of reports about content each week, said Zuckerberg.
In addition to humans, the company uses technical tools to identify questionable material. But with Facebook’s nearly 2 billion monthly active users, identifying and blocking banned content is difficult.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103695315624661
