Facebook will create 1,000 new roles in London over the course of this year, including adding to its team tackling harmful online content. More than half of the new jobs will be technology-focused, with roles in software engineering, product design, and data science, the company said.It will take Facebook's UK workforce to more than 4,000.Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg will announce the new jobs in London later on Tuesday, before traveling to the World Economic Forum in Davos."Many of these high-skilled jobs will help us address the challenges of an open internet and develop artificial intelligence to find and remove harmful content more quickly," she is expected to say.Those roles will be in Facebook's "community integrity" team, which designs tools to police posts on Facebook's platforms including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.Steve Hatch, the firm's vice-president for northern Europe, told BBC Radio 4's Today program that the firm had decided to invest more in policing online content, following the suicide of teenager Molly Russell in 2017.Facebook aimed to build on the progress it had made in tackling terrorist content to remove other problematic content such as self-harming, Mr. Hatch said.The firm had detected and removed two million posts from Facebook and 800,000 from Instagram, he added.

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