CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, plans to hire 1,000 new employees in an attempt to prevent Russians and other nations from using Facebook to interfere with US politics and elections. This is a response to the belief that Russia bought about 3,000 ads during the 2016 presidential election.

In the age of social media, although it is easy to connect with the world, people can use to technology to affect major events. New opportunities like what Facebook plans to do shows how our world is now trying to regulate and control the way social media works because of how big of an impact it can cause in the world. Besides preventing interventions of other countries, Facebook regulates what kind of content can be posted and advertised, particularly disturbing content such as violence.

Currently, there are about 5 million paying advertisers on Facebook. Although it seems like a lot to regulate, these things open up opportunities in the social media and information technology field. New jobs will be created for not only Facebook, but eventually other social media platforms such as Twitter. Although the types of regulations I described seem more to protect viewers, it is unknown how much regulation will increase. Regulation might continue at the level it is right now, or it can increase to an invasive level of having many workers watch all the content you post or advertise.

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-hiring-1000-people-to-review-its-ads-2017-10