In 2019, the Christchurch shooting was streamed live on Facebook for 17 minutes and quickly spread to other platforms. “I think I reported about 100 pages on Sunday because every time I got on Facebook it was either pictures or the video was right there,” she said. Then I watched the video on social media.”ĭanielle Simpson, the girlfriend of Chaney’s grandson, said she reported dozens of sites after the video kept appearing over and over in her Facebook feed and she worried that Chaney’s family would see them. “I found out in a Facebook picture that my mom was gunned down. “I didn’t find out, nobody knocked on my door like the usual process,” he said. Celestine Chaney’s son, Wayne Jones, found out his mother had been killed when someone sent him a video screenshot from the livestream. That was little consolation to family members of the victims. “The fact that the video is so hard to find right now is proof of that.” “In this case, they did pretty well,” Squire said. In a statement about the shooting Tuesday, the company expressed thanks “for the user reports that help us catch and remove harmful content in real time.” Twitch has not said how the video was flagged.

By most accounts the platforms responded more quickly to halt the spread of the Buffalo video than they did after the 2019 Christchurch shooting, said Megan Squire, a senior fellow and technology expert at the Southern Poverty Law Center.Īnother Twitch user watching the live video likely flagged it to the attention of Twitch’s content moderators, she said, which would have helped Twitch pull down the stream less than two minutes after the first gunshots per a company spokesperson. Still, not everything went according to plan.

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