Facebook will hire 3,000 new employees to scan the site for violence and hate

Looking to halt a trend toward the streaming of violent acts in real time, Facebook announced today that it will hire 3,000 new employees whose job will be to monitor the site looking for  acts of violence and hate. The 3,000 new hires will join the company over the next year and will be added to the 4,500 employees who already have the task of scanning Facebook for violence. Both live video and video posted after the fact will be part of the content to be examined.

Besides violence, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said that the 7,500 will remove posts that are not ...