Ex-NZ prime minister questions how the shooting could have been streamed live on Facebook for 17 minutes.
The Friday massacre at two New Zealand mosques, live-streamed to the world, was not the first time that violent crimes have been broadcast on the internet, but trying to stop the spread of a video once it has been posted online has turned into a virtual game of whack-a-mole.Facebook said it acted to remove the video after being alerted to it by New Zealand police shortly after the live stream began.
Facebook has spent years building artificial intelligence and in May 2017 it promised to hire another 3,000 people to speed the removal of videos showing murder, suicide and other violent acts. Still, the problem persists."Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the live stream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video," Facebook tweeted.
Frustrated with years of similar obscene online crises, politicians around the globe on Friday voiced the same conclusion: social media is failing. Users intent on sharing the violent video took several approaches - doing so at times with almost military precision.
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