Facebook: New Zealand shooting video had less than 200 real-time audiences

Facebook on Tuesday used some stats in its defense following criticism of its battle to include the spread of a livestream video of Friday’s mass shooting in New Zealand.

The social media network stated that the stream had less than 200 audiences throughout the live broadcast which the video got approximately 4,000 views prior to it was removed.

The numbers were exposed in a post by Facebook Deputy General Counsel Chris Sonderby, who stated no users reported the video when it was live. The very first user report came 12 minutes after the livestream ended, a complete 29 minutes after it began.

As formerly kept in mind, Facebook purged 1.5 million uploads of the video and most (1.2 million) were obstructed prior to going live on the platform. Sonderby stated in the Tuesday post that the initial video was digitally mapped so that Facebook software application might discover and obstruct comparable videos.

On Friday, a shooter in Christchurch assaulted Muslims hoping at 2 mosques and livestreamed the shooting on Facebook. The death toll from the event stands at 50, according to CBS News.

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Screen recordings, in which people video-recorded the stream on their phones and uploaded that video, were more difficult to automatically detect, according to Sonderby. To fix this issue, the company “expanded to additional detection systems,” which included using sound detection.  

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a consortium of technology companies, highlighted more than 800 different versions of the video, Reuters noted.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Parliament on Tuesday that the government is going to look closely at the role social media played in the incident, Bloomberg reported.

“We cannot simply sit back and accept that these platforms just exist and what is said is not the responsibility of the place where they are published,” she said. “They are the publisher not just the postman. There cannot be a case of all profit no responsibility.”