After spate of incidents where
people went live on Facebook to commit murder or suicide or posted videos of
their acts on their timelines, Facebook has decided to make its content
monitoring and review team stronger by 3000 more headcounts.
According to a Facebook post
of its founder Mark Zuckerberg, that he uploaded today, Facebook is working on to
better its reporting system on such videos so that timely action can be taken
to reach out to the people in need and such posts can be taken down immediately.
Zuckerberg wrote, "Over
the last few weeks, we've seen people hurting themselves and others on Facebook
-- either live or in video posted later. It's heartbreaking, and I've been
reflecting on how we can do better for our community."
Zuckerberg writes that
Facebook already has 4500 people in its community operations team that reviews
the reports from around the world every week and 3000 more people will be hired
to make the process faster and more efficient.
Zuckerberg also emphasizes on
the need to work in tandem with local groups and law enforcement agencies and
cites an example where someone was considering to commit suicide on Facebook
Live but due to timely action and efficient coordination between Facebook and
the local law enforcement agencies, that could be prevented.
Just last week, in a
murder-suicide case, on Facebook Live, a Thai man killed his daughter by
hanging and then committed suicide and the content was available on Facebook
for 24 hours. Around the same time, on April 25, an Alabama man shot himself
while on Facebook Live after breakup with his girlfriend. Last month, a man
killed an elderly in Cleveland and uploaded its video on Facebook. In October 2016,
a Turkish man shot himself to death while live of Facebook after breakup with
his girlfriend.
©SantoshChaubey
