YouTube and other social media and web sites have not been able to keep up with taking down a video that was apparently published by the New Zealand terrorist, as users spread it rapidly around the internet.
Ambulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.YouTube and other social media sites are working to remove the video apparently recorded by the shooter who killed at least 49 people in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, but they have not been able to keep up.
“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,” Mia Garlick, Facebook’s director of policy in Australia and New Zealand, said in an emailed statement. “We're also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re aware.
A series of searches on YouTube conducted by NBC News on Friday morning based on keywords related to the shooting turned up more than a dozen versions of the video that included graphic violence uploaded in under an hour, according to details publicly available on the platform. Many links turned up pages where the video had been taken down with the message: “This video has been removed for violating YouTube's policy on violent or graphic content.
The spread of the videos, particularly on YouTube, drew criticism on social media from users who said the company was not taking down the videos quickly as well as concerns that pieces of the video could end up interspersed in other videos targeted at young people.
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