Recruitment row | Facebook to pay £10m over claims its hiring process was 'discriminatory'

Facebook will pay out more than £10million after its hiring processes was declared to be discriminatory against US workers.

The social media behemoth was found by the US Department of Justice to have “routinely overlooked US workers in favour of foreign ones on temporary visas”, according to the BBC.

The US tech sector often uses temporary visas to bring highly skilled foreign employees. Silicon Valley giants argue there are not enough American science and engineering graduates to fill the jobs available in areas such as artificial intelligence, the BBC said.

However, some critics have argued that the system is being exploited to bring in cheaper foreign labour.