Author: Mike Snider / Source: USA TODAY
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vows to never mention the suspected attacker’s name and urges others to do the same. Newslook, Newslook
Facebook said a live stream broadcast by the gunman who killed 50 and wounded dozens more in New Zealand on Friday was viewed fewer than 200 times during the live broadcast.
Before the gunman entered two mosques in the city of Christchurch, he began livestreaming the rampage on Facebook and Twitter using a helmet cam. No Facebook users on the social network reported the video during the live broadcast, the company said in an online post.
Facebook removed the attacker’s video, the network says, minutes after the New Zealand police contacted them about it – 29 minutes after the video’s start and 12 minutes after it ended. In total, the original video was viewed about 4,000 times before being removed.
Despite the efforts by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Reddit, footage of the gunman’s rampage circulated online for hours after the shooting. On Sunday, Facebook said it removed or blocked 1.5 million videos of the gunman’s massacre. Most of those – more than 1.2 million – were blocked at upload, and were not seen by any users.
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