Facebook to hire "spy" employees with Kurdish knowledge
Following the German capital Berlin, Facebook, which has made itself a name with its censorship policies, wants to open a second centre in Essen to remove "inappropriate" contents.
Following the German capital Berlin, Facebook, which has made itself a name with its censorship policies, wants to open a second centre in Essen to remove "inappropriate" contents.
Following the German capital Berlin, Facebook, which has made itself a name with its censorship policies, wants to open a second centre in Essen to remove "inappropriate" contents. For this purpose it is in search of Kurdish speaking employees. This centre will be occupied by 500 personnel and the staff will monitor all entries in Kurdish, Turkish and Arabic 24 hours a day.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook announced in May that they will increase their global staff of currently 4500 to a total of 7500. One of the areas that Facebook will invest in, will be a section called "Delete Centre".
Facebook has previously deleted countless accounts of alternative media, including our news agency. It is said that with this new step, they will dash their pressure policies on the users next.
Facebook, which already possess such a centre in Germany's capital Berlin, where a staff of 700 members is active, is now opening another centre in the German city Essen. At this centre in Essen, all posts that Facebook deems 'wrong', a 'hate crime' and 'fake news' will be kept under surveillance 7 days a week and 24 hours a day.
In this centre which is set to open in autumn, Facebook wants to put priority on the Kurdish, Turkish and Arabic languages. In this centre, that will hire 500 employees, all shares and entries in those mentioned languages will be strictly monitored round the clock and immediately deleted in the event of not being wanted by the Facebook centre.
One of Facebook's directors Martin Ott provided the German media with some information regarding that centre and said: "Our aim is to counter illegal posts".
Facebook directors explained that job applicants will be receiving a three-week training. The authorities did not clarify how many personnel are planned to be recruited for the Kurdish section.