Facebook will hire 3000 people to quickly respond to unwanted posts

Facebook will hire 3,000 people next year to respond more quickly to notifications of unwanted posts, such as videos and live videos. Such posts have lasted longer than CEO Mark Zuckerberg would like in various incidents in recent weeks.

According to Zuckerberg, increasing the team that responds to reports from 4,500 to 7,500 should help Facebook detect and take action faster on such posts and videos that include violence and suicide threats. Sometimes the social network wants to remove those posts, in other cases it is about informing authorities.

Facebook had to deal with a few incidents in recent weeks, in which videos were left longer than Zuckerberg would have liked. Around Easter, an American posted a video of him killing a 74-year-old man in a video that was online for about three hours, while last week a Thai livestreamed the murder of his 11-month-old daughter before taking his own life. The Thai videos lasted for almost 24 hours. A day later, an American livestreamed his suicide via Facebook.