Tech consortium flags more than 800 versions of New Zealand attack video.
- A consortium of global technology firms has shared on its collective database the digital fingerprints of more than 800 versions of the video of New Zealand's mass shootings that killed 50 people, it said on Monday.
"This incident highlights the importance of industry cooperation regarding the range of terrorists and violent extremists operating online," the grouping, which includes Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Twitter Inc, said of the attack. "Before we were alerted to the video, a user on 8chan posted a link to a copy of the video on a file-sharing site," it added.
The gunman initiated the livestream using an app designed for extreme sports enthusiasts, with copies still being shared on social media hours later.
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