live footage of the mass shooting was viewed just 200 times in real time, and 4,000 times in. He wore handcuffs and a white prison shirt and had no expression. Critically, the video was not automatically detected. Other video-streaming sites like TikTok and YouTube require users to have a certain number of followers before they're able to stream live, reports Allyn. Brenton Tarrant, the 28-year-old shooting suspect, appeared in court Saturday in Christchurch on a murder charge. Facebook, Twitter and other sites like them have teams of thousands working to moderate content and block violent media from reaching people.įor example Twitch, the site the Buffalo shooter livestreamed on, could make it harder for people to open accounts and instantly upload live videos. 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 Listen to his discussion on Morning Edition. Facebook said this week the actual live stream of the incident, which lasted for 17 minutes, was only viewed by 200 users.
And for the past week, everyone has been trying to understand how, and why. "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. Jason South It was a deranged act, engineered to generate maximum publicity.
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