"If we're going to build a safe community, we need to respond quickly," chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on his Facebook page. The 3,000 new recruits, added over the coming year, will increase by two thirds the size of Facebook's community operations team, which currently numbers 4,500. "We've seen people hurting themselves and others on Facebook -- either live or in video posted later," Zuckerberg said. The additional reviewers will "help us get better at removing things we don't allow on Facebook like hate speech and child exploitation," he said. Zuckerberg said Facebook has been working on better technology that can identify violent or inappropriate content -- and that its efforts to screen for acts of violence appeared to be paying off.

Source: Standard Digital May 03, 2017 17:15 UTC