Why?Īs a result, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have become fertile environments in which extremist subcultures can thrive and organize, she said. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) Mark Baker/APįacebook says it's policing its platform, but it didn't catch a livestream of a massacre. A witness says many people have been killed in a mass shooting at a mosque in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.
Police and ambulance staff help a wounded man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 15, 2019. The big social media platforms have expended more effort policing copyrighted material than the kind of graphic content posted by the Christchurch shooter, according to Jean Burgess, a professor of digital media studies at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Many experts agree with Ardern that tech companies could do a great deal more to tackle the spread of hate-fueled and violent content, an issue over which they have faced recurrent criticism for years. Twitter didn’t respond to a request for comment. (GOOGL), which owns YouTube, declined to comment Monday on its latest efforts to take down the videos. It said Sunday that it’s trying to take down the video in any form, including clips of it that don’t feature any graphic content as well as posts expressing praise or support for the shooting. The company said it took it down only after being alerted to it by New Zealand police. She urged all social media companies to take responsibility for how their platforms were used in the lead-up to the mosque attack and in the aftermath.įacebook initially missed the livestream of the attack on Friday. Big tech could be doing moreįacebook’s ability to automatically block 1.2 million videos at upload “tells me there are powers to take a very direct approach to instances of speech that incites violence, or that incites hate,” Ardern said at a news conference Monday. (Photo by Dianne Manson/Getty Images) Dianne Manson/Getty Images Three people are in custody over the mass shootings. Another victim died later in Christchurch hospital.
41 of the victims were killed at Al Noor mosque on Deans Avenue and seven died at Linwood mosque. At least 49 people are confirmed dead, with more than 40 people injured following attacks on two mosques in Christchurch. Residents have been evacuated off the street as police investigate a property believed to be related to the deadly terror attacks in Christchurch today. DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND - MARCH 15: Police investigate a property at Somerville Street on Main Dunedin, New Zealand.
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