Facebook has announced it will recruit 3,000 more staff to help monitor the social network following an increase of live-streamed murders and suicides.
Although no exact incident was mentioned by the聽Californian firm, the move follows聽 a man in Thailand broadcasting his 11-month-old daughter鈥檚 death before killing himself, and the widely publicised shooting of an elderly man in Cleveland.
Mark Zuckerberg has previously described the situation as 鈥榟eartbreaking鈥�.
The news was revealed in a post on his personal Facebook page 鈥� which also announced increased profits as the social network closes in on two billion users.
He wrote: 鈥淲e have a lot more work to build a global community that works for everyone.
鈥淚 shared earlier today that we’re adding 3,000 people to our community operations team to review reported posts faster when someone needs help.
鈥淲e’re also continuing our work to spot false news, and enabling greater civic engagement by connecting people with their government representatives.
鈥淭his quarter we also took a major technology step forward at F8 by opening up the camera to be the first mainstream augmented reality platform.
鈥淚’m excited to get virtual and augmented reality in more of your hands soon.鈥�
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg echoed this sentiment by commenting on the post: 鈥淜eeping people safe is our top priority. We won鈥檛 stop until we get it right.鈥�
Zuckerberg added: 鈥淲e just announced our quarterly results and gave an update on our progress connecting the world.
“Our community now has more than 1.9 billion people, including almost 1.3 billion people active every day.
鈥淥ur next focus is building community. More than 100 million people on Facebook are members of 鈥榲ery meaningful鈥� groups – like parent support groups or illness support groups that are an important part of their lives.
鈥淢y hope is to help more than 1 billion people join very meaningful groups to strengthen our social fabric over the next few years.鈥�
It has not yet been revealed where the jobs will be based.