Social media platforms still can’t stop mass shooting videos from going viral.
in a supermarket Saturday was removed by the platform within minutes — but the video was still able to spread throughout the internet., Twitch, an Amazon-owned company popular for gaming livestreams, said it identified and removed the stream in less than two minutes.“Twitch has a zero-tolerance policy against violence of any kind and works swiftly to respond to all incidents,” the streaming giant said in a statement to.
On Saturday before the shooting occurred, the gunman, later identified as Payton Gendron, invited others to an online space on the chat service Discord where he posted a link to the Twitch stream and a racist manifesto and wrote, “HAPPENING: THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” according toThe shooting, in a Tops grocery store located in a predominantly Black neighborhood, left 10 people dead and another three injured.
At least one viewer who’d watched the livestream saved a copy on their computer and shared it, opening the door for it be downloaded and reshared to platforms including YouTube and Facebook as well as sites devoted to violent and uncensored videos and message boards.YouTube said its “Trust and Safety teams” have removed hundreds of videos related to the attack.
The company issued a statement saying it’s been adhering to community guidelines by “removing content that praises or glorifies the perpetrator of the horrific event in Buffalo, including removing reuploads of the suspect’s manifesto.” Authorities have described the incident as “racially motivated” based on the manifesto posted by Gendron that outlined specific plans to attack Black people and repeatedly cited “replacement theory,”
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