Facebook has been slammed for being unable to prevent footage being shared of the Christchurch massacre — but its latest move will make it worse.
on Friday but former tech employees say it’s not going to get any better.including 1.2 million that were blocked from being posted. That implies 300,000 versions of the video were available to watch for at least short periods of time before Facebook managed to pull them down.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten also took aim at social media sites for hosting hate speech and not being accountable for the spread of anti-social content. “Millions of people are being told online and on TV that there is a video and a document that are too dangerous for them to see, so they are looking for it in all the normal places,” he said,“So now we have tens of millions of consumers wanting something and tens of thousands of people willing to supply it, with the tech companies in between.”
According to former Facebook exec Antonio Garcia Martinez, a cynic might see this as a way for Facebook to protect itself against this kind of criticism.
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