New Zealand’s privacy commissioner hit out at Facebook on Monday, accusing the social media giant of enabling “genocide.”
He later explained in a follow-up post that he had deleted the tweets"because of the volume of toxic and misinformed traffic they prompted" and instead linked to an interview with Radio New Zealand on Monday where he reiterated his criticism of Facebook. Students display the New Zealand national flag next to flowers during a vigil in Christchurch on March 18, three days after a shooting incident at two mosques in the city claimed the lives of 50 Muslim worshippers. ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11, 2018. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Stern, but fair