The live-streaming of New Zealand’s mosque shooting shows how difficult it is to put a stop to such content
At least 49 people were killed in a mass shooting in two mosques in New Zealand on Friday. The perpetrator broadcast live footage of the shooting on Facebook.
Fast forward to March 2019. On Friday, Facebook and other tech giants like Twitter TWTR, +0.61% and YouTube GOOG, -0.09% were under scrutiny because of what people saw and shared through their sites: The 17-minute livestreamed mass shooting, not to mention links to a manifesto apparently inspired by white nationalism.
These sites insist they don’t idly stand by, even with the sheer amount of posting and sharing that goes one. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube all have posting policies, computers tasked with spotting and removing content in violation of their policies. Humans too — a reportedly difficult job. Legal liability Months after Zuckerberg’s trip to Washington D.C., Facebook’s lawyers urged federal appellate judges in Manhattan to affirm the dismissal of a case claiming the site enabled Hamas to fan anti-Semitic violence in Israel.
“Automated approaches to understand video and images just aren’t good enough to rely on at this point,” Golbeck said. Politics also plays a role Here’s how Facebook’s algorithm works: It compares potentially objectionable posts to a cache of content that has been deemed to represent terrorist or violent actions. But most of that content relates to acts from groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda.
An algorithm would similarly flag those, even though the content would be protected under freedom of press laws, Leetaru said.
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