Facebook Left Up Video of New Zealand Shootings for an Hour

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Facebook took down the video of the Christchurch attack a half an hour after a user flagged it

Facebook Inc. left a gruesome video of shootings at a New Zealand mosque up on its site for half an hour after a user brought it to the company’s attention, a previously unreported delay that highlights the social media giant’s difficulty in controlling violent content on its platform.

The timetable, based on times supplied overnight by Facebook and the New Zealand police, means the video showing men, women and children being gunned down at a mosque in Christchurch was available on Facebook’s site for an hour from the time...

 

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Why are they taking down videos at all?

You realize that removing a video spreading at an exponential rate across a network of billions of users is a little more difficult than walking over to a wall and taking down a poster, right?

Not impressed.

You Right WSJ. When its Radical Who kill innocent Christians and the like Why does Facebook Protects the Radicals and Bans the REST who say anything AGAINST them. Is facebook for all or the extremists and hackers who stole 8 million profiles of Moms dads and Kids from FB.RWN

People still have the video

“a half an hour” - where are the editors?

What’s happened to Freedom of Speech in America?

Fail! But they can take down a White House staffer in 5 minutes lol

That’s fast

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