https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/03/15/report-facebook-twitter-google-fail-to-stop-spread-of-new-zealand-massacre-video/
Facebook, Twitter, Google Fail to Stop Spread of New Zealand Massacre Video
Facebook’s Director of Policy for Australia and New Zealand, Mia Garlick, claimed in a statement, “New Zealand Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the livestream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video,” though according to CNN Business, the social network “declined further comment on when exactly it took down the video.”
Twitter also reportedly suspended a user “related to the shooting,” and “is working to remove the video from its platform,” while YouTube reportedly took action against the video as well.
CNN Business reported, however, that “copies of the gruesome video continued to appear on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter,” hours after the massacre, “raising new questions about the companies’ ability to manage harmful content on their platforms.”
“While Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter all say that they’re cooperating and acting in the best interest of citizens to remove this content, they’re actually not because they’re allowing these videos to reappear all the time,” declared Counter Extremism Project Senior Adviser Lucinda Creighton. “The tech companies basically don’t see this as a priority, they wring their hands, they say this is terrible… But what they’re not doing is preventing this from reappearing.”