The user did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. The platform said it removed 1.5 million videos of the attack in the 24 hours following. The 17-minute livestream, filmed on the accused gunmans helmet camera, shows the accused gunman driving to the Christchurch mosque and the shooting inside. In another case, the video was shared by a verified Instagram user in Indonesia with more than 1.6 million followers. In 2019, a gunman attacked mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch, live streaming his killings on Facebook. In a 15-minute window, Reuters found five copies of the footage on YouTube uploaded under the search term “New Zealand” and tagged with categories including “education” and “people & blogs”. Facebook did not immediately respond to additional questions.

Twitter and Google said they were working to stop the footage being reshared. Facebook said it had deleted the gunman’s accounts “shortly after the livestream commenced” after being alerted by police.īut Reuters found videos of the shooting on all five platforms up to 10 hours after the attacks, which began at 1345 local time in the city of Christchurch. Goresee ronnie mcnutt Iraq War veteran and Toyota worker Ronnie McNutt, 33, shot himself during a Facebook live stream as his family and friends watched in. Six months after Christchurch shootings, videos of attack are still on Facebook Platforms increasingly face a battle with bad actors organizing on forums such as 8chan to circumvent their. The live footage of Friday’s attacks, New Zealand’s worst-ever mass shooting, was first posted to Facebook and has since been shared on Twitter, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube and Facebook-owned Whatsapp and Instagram.įacebook, Twitter and YouTube all said they had taken steps to remove copies of the videos. Bloodied bandages on the road following a shooting at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 15, 2019.

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