After New York shooting video spreads, social platforms face questions

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NEW YORK - In March 2019, before a gunman murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, he went live on Facebook to broadcast his attack.

In October of that year, a man in Germany broadcast his own mass shooting live on Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming site popular with gamers.

By Sunday, recordings of the video had circulated widely on other social platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. An excerpt from the original video on a site called Streamable was viewed more than 3 million times before it was removed. Questions about the responsibilities of social media sites are part of a broader debate over how aggressively platforms should moderate their content. That discussion has been escalated since Mr Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, recently agreed to purchase Twitter and has said he wants to make unfettered speech on the site a primary objective.

Ms Hession said the site was working with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a non-profit coalition of social media sites, as well as other social platforms to prevent the spread of the video. One tool that social sites have used is a shared database of hashes, or digital footprints of images, that can flag inappropriate content and have it taken down quickly.

 

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