![]() Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account Hadas Gold, Donie O’Sullivan, Samuel Burke and Paul Murphy contributed to this report. “Do not share the video or you are part of this,” he added. “What I would tell the public is this: Do you want to help terrorists? Because if you do, sharing this video is exactly how you do it,” Moore said. The spread of the video could inspire copycats, said CNN legal enforcement analyst Steve Moore, a retired supervisory special agent for the FBI. “Unfortunately once it’s out there and it’s downloaded, it can still be (online),” he added. “This fellow live streamed the shooting and his supporters have cheered him on, and most of them are not in New Zealand,” he said. John Battersby, a counter-terrorism expert at Massey University of New Zealand, said the country had been spared mass terrorist attacks, partly because of its isolation. “But what they’re not doing is preventing this from reappearing.” “The tech companies basically don’t see this as a priority, they wring their hands, they say this is terrible,” Creighton said. The company says it was alerted to it by New Zealand police. YouTube says it will crack down on recommending conspiracy videosįacebook’s artificial intelligence tools and human moderators were apparently unable to detect the livestream of the shooting. “While Google, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter all say that they’re cooperating and acting in the best interest of citizens to remove this content, they’re actually not because they’re allowing these videos to reappear all the time,” said Lucinda Creighton, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, an international policy organization. It has happened in the United States, Thailand, Denmark and other countries.įriday’s video reignites questions about how social media platforms handle offensive content: Are the companies doing enough to try to catch this type of content? How quickly should they be expected to remove it? This is the latest case of social media companies being caught off guard by killers posting videos of their crimes, and other users then sharing the disturbing footage. Tech firms ‘don’t see this as a priority’ New Zealand police asked social media users to stop sharing the purported shooting footage and said they were seeking to have it taken down.ĬNN is choosing not to publish additional information regarding the video until more details are available. YouTube also declined to comment on how long it took to first remove the video. (GOOGL), removes “shocking, violent and graphic content” as soon as it is made aware of it, according to a Google (TWTR) said it suspended an account related to the shooting and is working to remove the video from its platform. Martin Hunter/EPAĤ9 killed in mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealandįacebook is “removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re aware,” Garlick said. The judge however ruled that even though there was sufficient evidence for a prosecution there was no public interest in proceeding on those charges.Bloodied bandages on the road following a shooting resulting in multiply fatalies and injuries at the Masjid Al Noor on Deans Avenue in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday 15 March. Nugent pleaded not guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism. He pleaded guilty to five counts of dissemination of terrorist publications and 11 counts of possession of a document containing information likely to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism. ![]() A further six charges were subsequently added. Nugent was arrested on 19 August 2020 and initially charged with 12 Terrorism Act offences. He also shared footage of the attack in Christchurch on the one-year anniversary of the atrocity in March last year and posted the manifesto of the perpetrator of the attack. ![]() A judge at Kingston crown court jailed him for three-and-a-half years.Ī Metropolitan police commander, Richard Smith, said: “Nugent freely shared his abhorrent extremist views with others over a messaging app, and he passed on manuals detailing how to produce deadly weapons and explosive devices.” ![]()
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