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![]() ![]() Facebook, Twitter and other sites like them have teams of thousands working to moderate content and block violent media from reaching people. There are reports six people are dead after a shooting at a mosque in the South Island town of Christchurch. Social media companies used to take a mostly hands-off approach to moderating content on their sites, but now more than ever sites are trying to manage the societal problems their sites create, reports Allyn. Experts say social media companies could do more A white supremacist who killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand will serve life in jail without parole - the first person in the countrys. Listen to his discussion on Morning Edition. The victims of the Christchurch massacre. "The social media platforms that profit from their existence need to be responsible for monitoring and having surveillance, knowing that they can be, in a sense, an accomplice to a crime like this, perhaps not legally but morally," Hochul said.Īllyn reports that social media companies usually are not held liable for what they don't police on their sites. Kathy Hochul said social media companies bear some responsibility when crimes like the Buffalo shooting happen. On the site Streamable, the video of the Buffalo shooting was viewed more than 3 million times before it was removed, says Allyn. Those reuploaded videos are harder for companies to take down, says NPR's Bobby Allyn. As Facebook and YouTube work to take down videos of Friday’s terrorist killings that left 50 dead in New Zealand, white supremacists are finding new ways to keep the content alive. A woman visits a makeshift memorial in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 16, 2019, for the victims of a mass shooting at two local mosques the previous day. At least 49 people were killed in the two shootings in Christchurch. National How is the 'Great Replacement' theory tied to the Buffalo shooting suspect?īut violent videos like those of mass shootings are saved by some users and then reappear across the internet on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and other platforms. New Zealand mosque shooting: Video of massacre shared on social media. ![]()
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