Jacinda gunning for Facebook

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has given a glimpse of what she will be discussing with other world leaders in Paris this week.

Ardern and French President Emmanual Macron are hosting a summit aimed at coming up with international agreement on ways to prevent the spread of terrorist and hateful material online.

It comes two months after an alleged white supremacist opened fire in two mosques in Christchurch, killing 51 people.

In an op-ed for the New York Timespublished on Sunday (NZ time), Ardern said she too inadvertently saw the killer's Facebook livestream.

"Many people report seeing it autoplay on their social media feeds and not realizing what it was - after all, how could something so heinous be so available? I use and manage my social media just like anyone else. I know the reach of this video was vast, because I too inadvertently saw it."

She says 8000 people phoned mental health support lines in the following week, saying they'd seen it.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/05/no-one-should-be-able-to-broadcast-mass-murder-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern.html

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New York Times article

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/jacinda-ardern-social-media.html