Mourners pray near the Linwood mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday. Christchurch was beginning to return to a semblance of normalcy Tuesday, as relatives and friends of Friday's shooting victims continued to stream in from around the world.
The new information comes as Facebook and other social media platforms confront a barrage of criticism and calls for boycotts over their role in enabling the viral spread of a graphically violent mass murder peppered with virulent racist commentary. Facebook has said it removed 1.5 million videos of the rampage in the 24 hours following the attack.
She said on Tuesday that the New Zealand government would be looking into the role that social media played in amplifying the terrorist attack. The live broadcast of the shooting from the accused gunman, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, was viewed fewer than 200 times, Sonderby said. It would be encountered thousands more times before New Zealand police reported the content to Facebook. Sonderby said Facebook removed the video “within minutes" of receiving the alert from police.
In response to the social media’s role in the shooting, some have pledged to boycott Facebook and Google, including advertisers in New Zealand. Burger King, ASB Bank and telecommunications company Spark New Zealand Ltd., among others, have all reportedly banded together to pull advertising from the tech giants to make a statement, the New Zealand Herald reported.
JuliaHB1 Is that their Defence? Blimey
No policemen every report other police officers either ...
I wonder why? Starzy, Oceania thought police? Come on, really? And why would anyone want to polute their mind with such unmovable disturbing images that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. No delete button in the brain.
Because all 4,000 enjoyed it.
А таких много?
JuliaHB1 About time to close down facebook
JuliaHB1 If this is true then it would make an interesting study to find out why.
Find that claim by Facebook hard to believe.
JuliaHB1 The video is everywhere just like videos of people jumping to their deaths on 9-11. If people want to watch that's their issue and not mine. Can't watch this shit.
I was having lunch at Work and someone else came into the staff room and proceeded too watch that video and show another colleague. All I can say from this one incident that I witnessed is it’s not just White Racists who watch it It’s everyone and I for sure don’t want to watch
JuliaHB1 I didn’t see it, I wasn’t allowed, nanny thought I wasn’t old enough or mature enough? Censor censor censor
JuliaHB1 That’s strange as I saw at least a couple of people say they spent a good few hours reporting the videos on Twitter and Facebook before they got taken down. Sorry Facebook but I this really hard to believe, more like you don’t employ enough moderators.
I don’t actually believe that can be true
Facebook, Twitter & YouTube need to add a time delay, in order for them to stop the dissemination of violence & murder. If they don’t add safeguards, they’re culpable. Facebook Twitter Youtube
Maybe everybody thought everybody else would. Or maybe they believed in freedom of expression. Or maybe 29 minutes isn't actually all that long a time to make a reasoned decision about whether to report something like that. What do you want - kneejerk reactions? Thought so.
why you & USATODAY called them shooter's, they are not Shooters they are CIA terrorists.nzpolice & Prime minister was already called them Terrorists. R u shying. now can CIA USArmy explain where is next Muslim target.
JuliaHB1 Strange ya ban tommy from twitter and fb but let a live stream of a massacre stay on hmmm
JuliaHB1 What’s the big deal? I don’t report much of anything. War footage is all over the place. Watching it live doesn’t change the effect. The globalists are just concerned they didn’t get to tell you what happened first to wash the footage with their narrative.
Washington Post & NewYork Times contributed into these (hatred) by their (Articles) toward the Muslims … Respect our culture and traditions to respect your culture and traditions
'Facebook says'. Everything after that is a lie.
OnePageWriter We have a name for the science behind this. Bystander effect. Let's not act brand new.
After so many accusations of negligence and so many more promises to be more responsible yet failing, it appears facebook needs help. By govt? That would be a mistake. How about by users?
How many times do we see school brawls, road rage, or other violence and there’s always a group of people standing around, cell phones out and in “record” mode.
Facebook enables ghoulish behavior online that actually perpetuates the behavior and heinous acts they claim to censor.
Bystander effect?
Most of the terrorist and common crime activities are arranged over the phone. Let's ban phones.
And that’s one of the problems with society today. People will watch other people being brutalized. They could be beaten, murdered, whatever. People are more concerned about having something go viral than doing the right thing.
How and how many are we talking about? Who actually believes Facebook?
I call bullshit... Unless only white nationalist were watching
That's because it was a hoax
So sad
Bull.
Here’s a thought. I know Facebook knows who watched it and who shared it. Ban them for life from FB and Instagram.
Perhaps we shouldn’t leave it to users to police Facebook’s content. Perhaps that should be the responsiblily of, I don’t know, their employees?
We need laws that address this new era of data. Laws that BENEFIT ppl. Control of our data, but still an ability to individually report on current events (inc bad gvmt behavior). Personal responsibility for viewing or big brother?
Operative words here being 'COMPANY SAYS'.
Excuse me but what the hell
Wer so oft lügt wie Facebooks Versntwortliche, ist nicht glaubwürdig.
Anyone who has ever tried to report anything to Facebook knows nothing goes against their community standards. Except nipples. Holy shit. Female nipples are very very bad.
Well... it looked like a video game
Human nature is unchanging. To support this assertion, one name: Kitty Genovese. (Look it up).
Shame
I don’t want to believe we are that rotten
🤦♂️
Its just a shame for us. We are becoming robotic
There’s no way
BS, you guy's LIE so much, VERY FAKE NEWS
'company says'
Whatta world we live in..