New details reveal just how quickly the video spread across the world and rocketed out of tech companies' control.
A police officer stands guard in front of the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sunday, where one of two mass shootings occurred. By Drew Harwell Drew Harwell National technology reporter covering artificial intelligence Email Bio Follow March 19 at 4:40 PM As the New Zealand gunman live-streamed the massacre onto Facebook, fewer than 200 people watched.
New numbers released by social media companies confirm what has been apparent since the March 15 killings: A single video that had been seen live by a relatively small audience had become, at the speed of the Web, impossible to contain, propelled by the same social-media infrastructure that has helped make American tech one of the most popular and wealthiest industries in history.The companies have pledged to devote more resources to content moderation.
[Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems] To evade the tech giants’ automatic blocking systems, people also began tweaking the video slightly and re-uploading it. According to the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a trade group formed by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube, more than 800 “visually distinct videos” of the attack had been digitally fingerprinted and banned.The spread of the violent video has drawn sharp rebukes on Capitol Hill, where the House Homeland Security Committee, led by Democratic Rep.
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