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New Zealand shootings: Facebook removed 1.2 million videos at point of upload, 300K videos bypassed filtration systems

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1.2 million of the total 1.5 million videos removed by Facebook in the first 24 hours were blocked at the point of upload through Facebook’s algorithms and hu
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Facebook has said that it removed a total of 1.5 million videos from the platform within the first 24 hours after the perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings live streamed the attack on the platform. 1.2 million of the total videos removed in the first day were blocked at the point of upload through a mix of Facebook’s algorithms and by human content moderators, while 300,000 managed to bypass filtration systems only to be removed later.

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