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Facebook has announced it will hire 3,000 extra staff over the next year to speed up the removal of videos showing murder, suicide and other violent acts.


Facebook has announced it will hire 3,000 extra staff over the next year to speed up the removal of videos showing murder, suicide and other violent acts.

 

The announcement follows a spike in the number of people using live-streaming services to commit crimes -- some of them devastating to view -- in real time.

 


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