![]() ![]() These details make painfully clear how dependent Facebook is on users to flag harmful content. The company recently issued some analytic details and noted that fewer than 200 people viewed the livestream of the massacre, and that surprisingly, no users reported it to Facebook until after it ended. ![]() Facebook highlighted the fact that 1.2 million of them “ were blocked at upload.” However, as a social media researcher and educator, I heard that as an admission that 300,000 videos and images of a mass murder passed through its automated systems and were visible on the platform. In the 24 hours after the New Zealand massacre, 1.5 million videos and images of the killings were uploaded to Facebook’s servers, the company announced. Though the company has hired more than 3,000 additional human content moderators, Facebook is not any better at keeping horrifying violence from streaming live online without any filter or warning for users. Facebook Live has broadcast killings, as well as other serious crimes such as sexual assault, torture and child abuse. That way, adult users would have an opportunity to flag inappropriate content before children were exposed to it. In the wake of Godwin’s murder, I recommended that Facebook Live broadcasts be time-delayed, at least for Facebook users who had told the company they were under 18. Facebook later clarified that the graphic video was uploaded after the event, but the incident called public attention to the risks of livestreaming violence. In 2017, Godwin was murdered in Cleveland, Ohio, and initial reports indicated that the attacker streamed it on Facebook Live, at the time a relatively new feature of the social network. When word broke that the massacre in New Zealand was livestreamed on Facebook, I immediately thought of Robert Godwin Sr. ![]()
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