The video stays up until someone censors us. “Sorry guys but we’re locking the thread out of necessity here.

Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg of the Washington Post say reported that the tech giant had to take drastic measures: Since the attack, YouTube said its removed thousands of uploads of the video, but even the company supported by Google couldn’t stop the spread of the footage quick enough. For example, The Wall Street Journal reported that a version of the video was edited to look like a first-person shooter game and then uploaded on Discord, a messaging app for videogamers. Once a video goes up, it’s not difficult for people to upload it themselves, create copies, and slightly doctor them in order to repost. Although some platforms, like Facebook, have human content moderating teams, they’re sometimes overworked, traumatized, and sometimes end up radicalized themselves. Part of the issue is companies have begun to over-rely on artificial intelligence software that can’t actually detect violent content as it’s being broadcasted, as noted by The Wall Street Journal. In addition to a livestream, the alleged shooter uploaded a 17-minute video to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. But ultimately, it has been up to those platforms to facilitate their removal.”

We did as much as we could to remove, or seek to have removed, some of the footage that was being circulated in the aftermath of this terrorist attack. She went on to add, “This is an issue I will look to be discussing directly with Facebook. I haven’t spoken to her directly but she has reached out, an acknowledgement of what has occurred here in New Zealand,” Arden said.

“Certainly, I have had some contact with Sheryl Sandberg. On Sunday, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden, told reporters during a press conference in Wellington that Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg reached out and the two haves plans to discuss the livestream. However, that means about 300,000 videos managed to appear on Facebook, and even that number is still far too big. In a thread on Twitter, the company said it blocked over 1.2 million of the videos before they were uploaded. In the first 24 hours we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack globally, of which over 1.2 million were blocked at upload…

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