It took 29 minutes and hundreds of views before someone reported the graphic video of the mass shooting.
Mourners pray near the Linwood mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday. Christchurch was beginning to return to a semblance of normalcy Tuesday, as relatives and friends of Friday's shooting victims continued to stream in from around the world.
The new information comes as Facebook and other social media platforms confront a barrage of criticism and calls for boycotts over their role in enabling the viral spread of a graphically violent mass murder peppered with virulent racist commentary. Facebook has said it removed 1.5 million videos of the rampage in the 24 hours following the attack.
She said on Tuesday that the New Zealand government would be looking into the role that social media played in amplifying the terrorist attack. The live broadcast of the shooting from the accused gunman, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, was viewed fewer than 200 times, Sonderby said. It would be encountered thousands more times before New Zealand police reported the content to Facebook. Sonderby said Facebook removed the video “within minutes" of receiving the alert from police.
In response to the social media’s role in the shooting, some have pledged to boycott Facebook and Google, including advertisers in New Zealand. Burger King, ASB Bank and telecommunications company Spark New Zealand Ltd., among others, have all reportedly banded together to pull advertising from the tech giants to make a statement, the New Zealand Herald reported.
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