Social media sites work to scrub Christchurch shooter posts as video spreads
Google, Twitter and Facebook are working to remove the social media presence of a man responsible for the New Zealand mosque shootings as graphic video footage he streamed circulates.
A screenshot from the gunman's video. It shows the gunman holding a high-powered gun outside the mosque.Tarrant's social media accounts were removed from the three social network sites, as well as Instagram, but not before the video was shared on social media by other users.The shooter’s Twitter account, on which he posted content linked to white supremacist websites and photos of guns, was suspended around 2pm, more than an hour after the shooting.
“New Zealand Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the livestream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video. We're also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re aware.” In his manifesto, Tarrant wrote he developed his beliefs on the “the internet, of course. You will not find the truth anywhere else''.A Spark spokesman said the company, Vodafone and New Zealand's third-largest internet provider Vocus had agreed to block customers' access to overseas websites that provided access to the video.
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