![]() ![]() "Platforms can't prevent that, but much more can be done by platforms to prevent such content from gaining a foothold and spreading." COMPUTER GAME CARNAGE The gunman filmed and shared the attacks using a mobile phone app called LIVE4, which allows users to broadcast directly to Facebook from personal body cameras, according to the app's developer and a Reuters review of videos available online. "Extremists will always look for ways to utilise communications tools to spread hateful ideologies and violence," she said. She said the attacks were shown live on Facebook for 17 minutes before being stopped. The shootings in New Zealand show how the services they offer can be exploited by extremist groups, said Lucinda Creighton, senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project. Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet Inc and other social media companies have previously acknowledged the challenges they face policing content on their platforms. The user did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. In another case, the video was shared by a verified Instagram user in Indonesia with more than 1.6 million followers. In a 15-minute window, Reuters found five copies of the footage on YouTube uploaded under the search term "New Zealand" and tagged with categories including "education" and "people & blogs". ![]() Facebook did not immediately respond to additional questions. Twitter and Google said they were working to stop the footage being reshared. But Reuters found videos of the shooting on all five platforms up to 10 hours after the attacks, which began at 1345 local time in the city of Christchurch. Facebook said it had deleted the gunman's accounts "shortly after the livestream commenced" after being alerted by police. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube all said they had taken steps to remove copies of the videos. The live footage of Friday's attacks, New Zealand's worst-ever mass shooting, was first posted to Facebook and has since been shared on Twitter, Alphabet Inc's YouTube and Facebook-owned Whatsapp and Instagram. No equivalent chokepoint here.By Jack Stubbs LONDON (Reuters) - A gunman who killed 49 people at two New Zealand mosques live-streamed the attacks on Facebook for 17 minutes using an app designed for extreme sports enthusiasts, with copies still being shared on social media hours later. So you could grab a video and block it before the first upload attempt. Each time this happens, the companies have to spot it and create a new fingerprint."Ĭomparing the livestreamed New Zealand shooting video to content from ISIS, Stamos told ABC News, "The ISIS problem was partially cracked because the companies infiltrated all their Telegram channels. ![]() "Perceptual hashes and audio fingerprinting are both fragile, and a lot of these same kinds of people have experience beating them to upload copyrighted content. ![]() YouTube and Facebook/Instagram have perceptual hashing built during the ISIS crisis to deal with this and teams looking," Stamos tweeted. "So now we have tens of millions of consumers wanting something and tens of thousands of people willing to supply it, with the tech companies in between. He posted the FB Live link and mirrors to his manifesto right before, so thousands of people got copies in real-time," he tweeted. He also noted that the "shooter was an active member of a rather horrible online community (which I will not amplify) that encourages this kind of behavior. Stamos pointed out that the verboten nature of the offensive material made it a popular search on Google. ![]()
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