After Murder, Facebook to Hire 3K to Review Videos

Facebook last month pledged to "do meliorate" after a human in Cleveland shot and killed an elderly private and posted a video of the murder on the social network. At present, the company is making good on that promise.

In a Wednesday post, Facebook CEO Marker Zuckerberg said the visitor will exist calculation 3,000 people to its community operations team to "review the millions of reports nosotros become every calendar week, and improve the procedure for doing information technology quickly." That'south on top of the iv,500 reviewers Facebook currently employs.

"Over the last few weeks, we've seen people hurting themselves and others on Facebook – either alive or in video posted later on," Zuckerberg wrote. "Information technology'due south heartbreaking, and I've been reflecting on how we tin exercise better for our customs. If we're going to build a safety community, we demand to reply quickly."

He went on to say that Facebook is besides "working to make these videos easier to report" so the visitor can more than speedily remove the video and/or get the person help.

In the case of the Cleveland murder, Facebook said it received a study about the video containing the shooting more an hour and 45 minutes later it was posted. The company disabled the suspect's business relationship inside 23 minutes of receiving the starting time written report almost the murder video, simply admitted that's not practiced enough.

The crime followed several disturbing incidents captured on Facebook Live, from shootings to sexual assault. The social network has as well had to grapple with teens and tweens live streaming their own suicides; Facebook has since integrated its suicide prevention tools into Live, and then if you lot're watching a circulate and someone expresses suicidal thoughts, you can report the video and get the person help.

Zuckerberg in his post today said the visitor is "going to make it simpler to report bug to united states of america, faster for our reviewers to determine which posts violate our standards and easier for them to contact law enforcement if someone needs aid."

He said Facebook just last week received a report that someone on Live was considering suicide.

"We immediately reached out to law enforcement, and they were able to forestall him from hurting himself," Zuckerberg wrote. "In other cases, we weren't so fortunate."

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'south expert on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for well-nigh 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fettle trackers, eye rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart habitation devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to proper noun a few.