In the United States, the assault in Chicago of an 18-year-old man with special needs, accompanied by anti-white racial taunts, in 2017, and the fatal shooting of a man in Cleveland, Ohio, that same year, was also live-streamed.įacebook 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. Other violent crimes that have been live-streamed on the internet include a father in Thailand in 2017 who broadcast himself killing his daughter on Facebook Live.Īfter more than a day and 370,000 views, Facebook removed the video. The New Zealand live Facebook broadcast was rapidly repackaged and distributed by internet users across other social media platforms within minutes. Once a video is posted online, people who want to spread the material race to action. The live stream of the mass shooting, which left 49 dead, lasted for 17 minutes.įacebook said it acted to remove the video after being alerted to it by New Zealand police shortly after the live stream began.īut hours after the attack copies of the video were still available on Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc's YouTube, as well as Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp.

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.

Christchurch shooting video livestream