Facebook hires thousands to launch crackdown on ‘hate speech’

Published June 27, 2017 6:02pm ET



Facebook announced Tuesday it will add thousands of employees in an effort to eliminate what it deems “hate speech” on people’s pages.

The California-based company said in a blog post Tuesday it will be hiring an additional 3,000 people to its community operations team, with the aim of deleting nearly 66,000 posts deemed to be offensive each week.

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