Facebook to Hire 3,000 More to Review, Report Crimes, Suicides Posted on Videos
Facebook will hire 3,000 people over the next year to review millions of weekly reports it gets about live videos or ones posted later that show crimes, including murders, and suicides, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post Wednesday. The…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
hires to the company's global community operations team will be on top of the current 4,500 employees, he said. "These reviewers will also help us get better at removing things we don't allow on Facebook like hate speech and child exploitation," said Zuckerberg. "We'll keep working with local community groups and law enforcement who are in the best position to help someone if they need it -- either because they're about to harm themselves, or because they're in danger from someone else." The company is building better tools that make it easier for users to report problems and enable reviewers to determine violations more quickly and to report them more easily to law enforcement, he added. "Just last week, we got a report that someone on Live was considering suicide. We immediately reached out to law enforcement, and they were able to prevent him from hurting himself," he said. "In other cases, we weren't so fortunate."