CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Here is no doubt about the fact that Facebook is the world’s most popular website with user 1.65 billion on board. Earlier CEO Had expressed his dream of connecting people all around the globe through the platform
Though the dream has emerged progressively, the fact that all these users have different languages makes it rather hard for people from different regions communicate seamlessly.
“Given that 50% of our community does not speak English and most people don’t speak each other’s languages, it’s incredibly important that we take on the challenge of removing language as a barrier to connecting on Facebook,” the company said.
”We’re excited to see this tool help even more people connect with their friends who speak different languages.
” Facebook said it plans to use multilingual posts to improve its machine translation data. “We hope to collect new data in less common languages, enabling us to build new machine translation systems that work better,” the company said.
“This will move us closer to our vision of removing language barriers across Facebook.”