Facebook plans to hire 3,000 additional people to review videos and other posts after being criticized for not responding quickly enough to homicides shown live on its service. In both those cases, police said the killers were the ones who posted the videos on Facebook. Burroughs said Facebook clearly knew that livestreams would help the company make money, because they keep users on Facebook longer, making advertisers happy. From his interviews and Facebook posts, it appears that Zuckerberg knows this, even if he is not always as quick to respond as some would hope. 8:25 a.m.: This article was updated with more details from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook post and more information about violent videos posted to Facebook.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 03, 2017 14:44 UTC