Facebookis doubling down (almost) on the humans it puts on its line of defense against the kind of violent broadcasts that stoked an outcry last month. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that Facebook will hire 3,000 more people over the next year to monitor reports about violent videos and other objectionable material. That team already had 4,500 people reviewing millions of reports every week, he said Wednesday in a post on his own Facebook page.
The company, however, has attracted more attention for its gruesome monitoring misses than its success stories. Last month, the company was criticized for hosting a video of a Thai man killing himself and his infant daughter, a live broadcast that reportedly remained up for nearly a day. Facebook isn't alone in this dilemma. Any company that allows people to share media runs the risk of graphic uploads. Google's YouTube, for example, also hosted a copy of the Thai video. (That upload was removed within 15 minutes, that company said. But Facebook has been inconsistent in its response to graphic content.
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