(Image source: Reuters)įacebook has revealed that it removed nearly 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings in which 50 people were killed and another 50 people injured, after a gunman opened fire on worshippers on Friday, March 15 at two mosques in New Zealand.
The chair of the US House Committee on Homeland Security wrote a letter last week to top executives of four major technology companies urging them to do a better job of removing violent political content.Facebook removed nearly 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings in which 50 people were killed and another 50 people injured, after a gunman opened fire on worshippers on Friday, March 15. The shooting at two mosques in New Zealand on 15 March, which killed 50 people, was livestreamed on Facebook for 17 minutes and then copied and shared on social media sites across the internet.įacebook said it raced to remove hundreds of thousands of copies.īut a few hours after the attack, footage could still be found on Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc's YouTube, as well as Facebook-owned Instagram and Whatsapp.Ībdallah Zekri, president of the CFCM's Islamophobia monitoring unit, said the organisation had launched a formal legal complaint against Facebook and YouTube in France.īoth companies have faced widespread criticism over the footage. There was no immediate comment from either company. The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) said the companies had disseminated material that encouraged terrorism and harmed the dignity of human beings.
People stand next to floral tributes to those that were killed, across the road from the Al Noor mosque.
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