This comes after a live stream of a 74 year old man being killed in cold blood went viral. On another case, a video was posted by a man in Thailand that he had filmed himself killing his 11- month old daughter. Zuckerberg announced that Facebook’s initial team had successfully stopped a suicide after a man had live streamed themselves hinting of killing himself, a representative from the team had called the police and they got the situation under control. It is great to see the founder of this social giant go out of his way to take measures that put the users first above the financial bottom line. On the other hand, some investors are worried that the move would require the company to use funds to pay these new employees but they were assured that the move wouldn’t affect Facebook’s earnings. The new employees were said to have the responsibility of scanning videos for violence, hate speech and child exploitation. It is also their job to work with law enforcement to prevent any issues before they blow out of proportion. Lastly, we are reminded that human beings can still do a better job than algorithms in some scenarios such as this one.
