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The company does have a page titled “ information for law enforcement authorities ,” but it merely outlines procedures for making legal requests for user account records.

The spread of the videos, particularly on YouTube, drew criticism on social media from users who said the company was not taking down the videos quickly as well as concerns that pieces of the video could end up interspersed in other videos targeted at young people.Facebook also doesn’t appear to post any public information instructing law enforcement how to report dangerous or criminal video. One graphic video clip had been available for roughly nine hours, according to the Facebook post’s details.īy Friday afternoon, similar searches on YouTube and Facebook turned up only heavily censored videos of the shootings and some that used stills from the livestream that did not contain graphic content. Many links turned up pages where the video had been taken down with the message: “This video has been removed for violating YouTube's policy on violent or graphic content.”įacebook’s Watch platform also hosted copies of the video, according to a basic keyword search. YouTube tweeted early Friday that the company was “working vigilantly to remove any violent footage.”Ī series of searches on YouTube conducted by NBC News on Friday morning based on keywords related to the shooting turned up more than a dozen versions of the video that included graphic violence uploaded in under an hour, according to details publicly available on the platform. The video then began to spread around the internet, including on YouTube and Twitter. Facebook had removed the profile associated with the livestream about an hour and a half the video first started streaming. The livestream was taken down after about 20 minutes, according to timestamped archives of the Facebook page seen by NBC News. We will continue working directly with New Zealand Police as their response and investigation continues.”įacebook was not able to remove the video before it had been captured by viewers. “We're also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re aware.

“New Zealand Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the livestream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video,” Mia Garlick, Facebook’s director of policy in Australia and New Zealand, said in an emailed statement. The video was originally livestreamed on Facebook, which released a statement in the hours after the shooting detailing the company’s plans to limits its spread.

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