But executives from the sites say they have been doing what they can to combat the spread of the video, one possibly designed for an age of virality.
Social media and video sharing sites have faced criticism for being slow to respond to the first-ever live-streamed mass shooting, recorded from the first-person perspective of the shooter, the camera seemingly mounted atop the killer’s helmet. Countless more views occurred in the hours afterward, as copies of the video proliferated more quickly than online platforms like Facebook could remove them. But the video was viewed about 4,000 times before Facebook removed it, he added. A Facebook vice president said fewer than 200 people saw the Christchurch massacre while it was being streamed live on the site.
