Facebook Supports Community Administrators

The Social Media Giant "Facebook'" will pay them $10 million to help them multiply their impact and interactions between users.

Facebook announced Friday the release of $10 million in grants for community administrators on the online social network, in a new effort to support user interactions.

Facebook declared Friday the arrival of $ 10 million in awards for group directors on the online informal community, in another push to help client communications.

"Group executives frequently disclose to us that with more help from Facebook, they could use their effect. That is the reason today we're reporting the dispatch of our Facebook Community Leadership (to) program to help overseers around the globe who have made groups with applications and administrations from the Facebook item family, "said the US goliath. an announcement.

Facebook announced Friday the release of $ 10 million in grants for community administrators on the online social network, in a new effort to support user interactions.

"Community administrators often tell us that with more support from Facebook, they could leverage their impact. That's why today we're announcing the launch of our Facebook Community Leadership (to) program to support administrators around the world who have created communities with applications and services from the Facebook product family, "said the US giant. a statement.

100 selected administrators

In addition to various initiatives to promote exchanges between these administrators, Facebook will select up to 100 administrators of these communities of users and provide them with training and funding. Up to five of them will receive "up to $ 1 million each to fund their projects" and the others "will receive up to $ 50,000 each to use for an initiative from their group". They will also be able to visit the group's campus in Menlo Park, California to receive training.

The social networking giant points out that out of 2.13 billion Facebook users, over a billion use groups to meet or help each other. Nearly 22 million groups are active every month in France alone, says the company.

Facebook unveiled the initiative at a meeting in London with over 300 community administrators from across Europe. The US group took the opportunity to highlight that it would double the number of engineers working in London to ensure the safety of users online.

This is a setting in the UK of a global measure announced at the end of last year by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which provides for the passage of 10'000 to 20'000 the number of engineers assigned these control operations by the end of the year.

These employees will be responsible for detecting and removing fake Facebook accounts, building tools to track and act against online harassment and scams, and improving content reporting methods to more easily flush out content that "should not be On the platform, said the social network.