![]() ![]() Yet even as Facebook expunged 4.5 million pieces of content related to the Christchurch attack within six months of the killings, what The Times found this week shows that a mass killer’s video has an enduring - and potentially everlasting - afterlife on the internet. ![]() In the aftermath, tech companies and governments banded together, forming coalitions to crack down on terrorist and violent extremist content online. The clips and links were not difficult to find, even though Facebook, Twitter and other platforms pledged in 2019 to eradicate the footage, pushed partly by public outrage over the incident and by world governments. Three of the videos had been uploaded to Facebook as far back as the day of the killings, according to the Tech Transparency Project, an industry watchdog group, while others were posted as recently as this week. They were on at least nine platforms and websites, including Reddit, Twitter, Telegram, 4chan and the video site Rumble, according to The Times’s review. In a search spanning 24 hours this week, The New York Times identified more than 50 clips and online links with the Christchurch gunman’s 2019 footage. The clip on Facebook - one of dozens that are online, even after years of work to remove them - may have been part of the reason that the Christchurch gunman’s tactics were so easy to emulate. Online writings apparently connected to the 18-year-old man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo grocery store on Saturday said that he drew inspiration for a livestreamed attack from the Christchurch shooting. About three-quarters of the way through the video, text pops up urging the audience to “Share THIS.” The clip has amassed about 7,000 views and 22 comments, including some asking for it to be deleted. 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.įor more than three years, the video has remained undisturbed on Facebook, cropped to a square and slowed down in parts. The black-and-white clip was uploaded to Facebook on March 15, 2019. One falls, while the other tries crawling away before getting shot again. Then he raises a semiautomatic gun and fires at two people standing in a doorway. The one-minute 30-second video offers an unnerving first-person view. ![]()
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