![]() But executives from the sites say they have been doing what they can to combat the spread of the video, one possibly designed for an age of virality. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she has been in contact with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to ensure the video is entirely scrubbed from the platform.Īnd some websites accused of hosting footage of the attacks, such as 4chan and LiveLeak, have found themselves blocked by the country's major Internet providers. "We've started temporarily blocking a number of sites that are hosting footage of Friday's terrorist attack in Christchurch," Telstra said on Twitter. "We understand this may inconvenience some legitimate users of these sites, but these are extreme circumstances and we feel this is the right thing to do." Liveleak co-founder Hayden Hewitt told NPR that Liveleak will not carry the video. "We don't want it on our platform and we will continue to remove it whenever it is discovered," a company statement reads. The block itself came as a complete surprise, said Hewitt, who noted his site is still shut out of New Zealand and Australia. Optus and Vodaphone are also blocking LiveLeak, he said. "It would appear we're either being blocked because a copy was temporarily available via sharing for a very short period, or by reputation," Hewitt said. "It's kind of strange really, we've been blocked by governments before but not telecoms deciding themselves. Interesting times."įacebook says that 12 minutes after the 17-minute livestream ended, a user reported the video to Facebook. By the time Facebook was able to remove it, the video had been viewed about 4,000 times on the platform, according to Chris Sonderby, the company's vice president and deputy general counsel.īut before Facebook could remove the video, at least one person uploaded a copy to a file-sharing site and a link was posted to 8chan, a haven for right-wing extremists. Journalist Robert Evans told NPR's Melissa Block that 8chan "is essentially the darkest, dankest corner of the Internet. And its primary purpose is to radicalize more people into eventual acts of violent, far-right terror." It is basically a neo-Nazi gathering place. Once the video was out in the wild, Facebook had to contend with other users trying to re-upload it to that site, or to Facebook-owned Instagram. Facebook's systems automatically detected and removed the shares that were "visually similar" to the banned video, Sonderby said. Some variants of the video, like screen recordings, required the use of additional detection systems, such as those that identify similar audio.įacebook says more than 1.2 million copies of the video were blocked at upload, "and were therefore prevented from being seen on our services." Facebook removed another three hundred thousand copies of the video globally in the first 24 hours, it said. Another way to look at those numbers, reports TechCrunch, is that Facebook " failed to block 20%" of the copies when they were uploaded. Other video sharing sites also found themselves coping with an enormous influx of uploads. ![]() ![]() "The volumes at which that content was being copied and then re-uploaded to our platform was unprecedented in nature," Neal Mohan, chief product officer for YouTube, told NPR's Ailsa Chang. The Twitter account of the same name was quickly suspended.(Note: YouTube is among NPR's financial sponsors.) During the first few hours, YouTube saw about one upload every second, he said. The Facebook account that posted the video was no longer available shortly after the shooting. In a lengthy manifesto published online the supposed shooter outlined who he was and why he carried out the massacre at the Christchurch mosque, NZ Herald reported. Inside the mosque, the gunman's footage showed distinctively patterned green carpet that also matched images tagged on Google Maps as being at the same location.ĭistinctive writing on the gunman's weapons seen in the footage also matched images posted on a Twitter account using the same name and cartoon profile picture as the Facebook Live video. This included the entrance of the mosque, which has a number of distinct features such as a fence, postbox and doorway. The 17-minute video ended as the gunman drove away from the scene at speed.Īgence France-Presse confirmed the video was genuine through a digital investigation that included matching screenshots of the mosque taken from the gunman's footage with multiple images available online showing the same areas. He then re-entered the mosque to check for survivors.
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