

“No users reported the video during the live broadcast,” and it was watched about 4,000 times in total before being taken down, Sonderby said. Fifty people were killed at two mosques in Christchurch.įacebook removed the video “within minutes’” of being notified by police, said Chris Sonderby, Facebook’s deputy general counsel. It said the gunman’s live 17-minute broadcast was viewed fewer than 200 times and the first user report didn’t come in until 12 minutes after it ended. The social media giant released new details about its response to the video in a blog post. LONDON - Facebook says none of the 200 or so people who watched live video of the New Zealand mosque shooting flagged it to moderators, underlining the challenge tech companies face in policing violent or disturbing content in real time. These Internet companies and others say they’re working to remove video footage filmed by a gunman in the New Zealand mosque shooting that was widely available on social media hours after the horrific attack.

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