The terrorist’s live broadcast was viewed about 4,000 times in total before being removed from Facebook.
Facebook has said that no users reported the Christchurch shooting footage as it was being broadcast live last Friday, despite it being viewed up to 200 times.
Chris Sonderby, Facebook’s deputy general counsel, said in a statement that the terrorist’s video was viewed about 4,000 times in total before being removed from the website.
He said the first user complaint on the original video came in 29 minutes after the start of the video, which showed a graphic portion of the New Zealand mosque attacks in real time. The report was received 12 minutes after the live broadcast ended, Sonderby said.
According to Facebook, company moderators removed about 1.5 million videos of the attack globally. More than 1.2 million of those videos were blocked at upload and never seen.
