The horrific mass shootings at New Zealand mosques have ignited strong demands for YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to regulate violent hate speech on their platforms. The shootings have left at least 49 people dead and is the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history. Christchurch mosque shootings: Gunman livestreamed 17 minutes of shooting terror NZ Herald 15 Mar, 2019 09:30 AM4 mins to read A horrific shooting at a Christchurch mosque was livestreamed for. Police said 49 people are dead after shootings at two mosques. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she has been in contact with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to ensure the video is entirely scrubbed from the platform.nd some websites accused of hosting footage of the attacks, such as 4chan and LiveLeak, have found themselves blocked by the countrys major Internet providers. The shooter reportedly posted a 74-page anti-Muslim manifesto to Twitter criticizing “white genocide.” He also posted likewise on 8chan (a discussion site where users frequently post hateful content). There were 39 people hospitalized, including 11 in intensive care. Many people were feared killed and over 40 sustained injuries as at least two gunmen opened fire at two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch. Then on Friday, someone posted “I will carry out and attack against the invaders, and will even livestream the attack via Facebook,” Reuters reported. LiveLeak aimed to freely host real footage of politics, war, and many other world events and to encourage and foster a culture of citizen journalism. The live video of the alleged mass killings in Christchurch has been blocked from many Kiwis screens by internet companies. LiveLeak was a British video sharing website, headquartered in London.The site was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind the shock site which closed on the same day. Some 1.5 million videos of the attack were removed by. It is clear that online platforms played a huge roll in these shootings. New Zealand shooting: More than 200 users watched live stream video of Christchurch mosque attacks, but nobody reported it, says Facebook. One of the shooters even live streamed the attack on Facebook. He live streamed a 17-minute video of him shooting multiple people in the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch. YouTube says a sometimes graphic three-hour live-streamed video of a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, has journalistic value and doesn’t violate its rules on violent content. These individuals seek livestream videos in an attempt to prove a false flag theory, disprove that the shooting occurred, assert that the government was behind the incident, etc.
The shootings have resulted in many demanding these online platforms to do more to prevent hate speech posted on their sites. Conspiracy theory extremism has the potential to feed violence if an individual believes that they need to use an act of force in order to stop what they believe. It was a partial recording of a livestream by a gunman while he murdered 51 people that day at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.