Facebook's systems automatically detected and removed the shares that were 'visually similar' to the banned video, Sonderby said. Once the video was out in the wild, Facebook had to contend with other users trying to re-upload it to that site, or to Facebook-owned Instagram.

And its primary purpose is to radicalize more people into eventual acts of violent, far-right terror.' It is basically a neo-Nazi gathering place.

Journalist Robert Evans told NPR's Melissa Block that 8chan 'is essentially the darkest, dankest corner of the Internet. By the time Facebook was able to remove it, the video had been viewed about 4,000 times on the platform, according to Chris Sonderby, the company's vice president and deputy general counsel.īut before Facebook could remove the video, at least one person uploaded a copy to a file-sharing site and a link was posted to 8chan, a haven for right-wing extremists. Interesting times.'įacebook says that 12 minutes after the 17-minute livestream ended, a user reported the video to Facebook. 'It's kind of strange really, we've been blocked by governments before but not telecoms deciding themselves. 'It would appear we're either being blocked because a copy was temporarily available via sharing for a very short period, or by reputation,' Hewitt said. Optus and Vodaphone are also blocking LiveLeak, he said. The block itself came as a complete surprise, said Hewitt, who noted his site is still shut out of New Zealand and Australia. 'We don't want it on our platform and we will continue to remove it whenever it is discovered,' a company statement reads. Liveleak co-founder Hayden Hewitt told NPR that Liveleak will not carry the video. 'We understand this may inconvenience some legitimate users of these sites, but these are extreme circumstances and we feel this is the right thing to do.' 'We've started temporarily blocking a number of sites that are hosting footage of Friday's terrorist attack in Christchurch,' Telstra said on Twitter. 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.Īnd some websites accused of hosting footage of the attacks, such as 4chan and LiveLeak, have found themselves blocked by the country's major Internet providers.

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