“Today, we announce a plan to create 10,000 new highly skilled jobs within the European Union, over the next five years,” Facebook wrote on its blog.
The social networking giant explained that the new jobs would include “specialized engineers”, but did not reveal more details.
The huge job announcement comes within the framework of what is known as the “metaverse” project, to build a virtual world online, where people can move, connect, work and even play in this virtual environment.
Zuckerberg was one of the most prominent advocates of supporting the idea of this project, which would blur the boundaries between the physical world and the digital world, and the project’s technology is based on the person wearing virtual glasses that make him feel as if he is facing his friend face to face, even though they are in fact thousands of miles away.
Not everyone liked Facebook’s announcement of the new jobs, with many outraged at the blue site for what they said was its failure to combat misinformation and hate speech.
And leaked documents from Facebook showed that the site was able to delete only 2% of the total hate speech posts on its pages, even though it claims to have the best artificial intelligence techniques that hunt down harmful content.
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