The shooter’s 73-page manifesto also made its way onto Twitter and 8Chan – a message board forum infamous for its extremist discussions, according to the New York Times. The Guardian reported that Facebook took about one hour to take the video down.īut that was more than enough time for downloaded copies of the video to make its way across the world on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
It was covered in white lettering, featuring the names of others who had committed race- or religion-based killings.Ī New Zealand Facebook executive told reporters that the New Zealand police had alerted Facebook soon after the 17-minute video had ended, and the company removed the shooter’s accounts and the video. The video he streamed from a helmet-mounted camera shows the gunman moving from room to room shooting at everybody praying in the mosque and two days before the attack, the Twitter handle tweeted pictures of one of the guns later used. On Friday, as reports emerged he had killed at least 49 people after attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, social media platforms attempted to curtail the spread of his violence that went viral.
(Photo via AP)įrom live streaming to social media his shooting spree in a Christchurch from a helmet-mounted camera, to a post on 8Chan that had links to his 73-page manifesto and from tweeting pictures of one of the guns used in the attack to a reference to Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie, the 28-year-old Australian white nationalist behind New Zealand’s worst-ever mass killing wanted the world’s attention.Īnd by leveraging the Internet he got exactly that. New Zealand terrorist attack: A still from a video on social media shows the gunman driving in Christchurch.
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