The Christchurch gunman, who killed 49 people on Friday, streamed his attack on Facebook Live for 17 minutes before New Zealand police had the stream taken down. Hundreds of reposts were uploaded to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, and remained there several hours after the attack. (Wall Street Journal, Vice)
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The Christchurch gunman, who killed 49 people on Friday, streamed his attack on Facebook Live for 17 minutes before New Zealand police had the stream taken down. Hundreds of reposts were uploaded to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, and remained there several hours after the attack. (Wall Street Journal, Vice)
Talking point: All three platforms have struggled to block and remove violent content despite devoting significant resources to doing so. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube use artificial intelligence to automatically flag violent content, but it didn’t work in this case. In addition, Facebook now has 15,000 workers reviewing content, but they also didn’t stop the video before police called. A new proposed law from the European Union would require tech companies to remove terrorist content within an hour of it being reported by law enforcement. In the past, New Zealand has moved quickly to force tech giants to contribute more to Kiwi society since Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won the October 2017 election.
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