Christchurch Hospital was also put into lock down. The Bangladesh cricket team were reportedly among the 200 worshippers present but they managed to escape.īut small children are said to be among the dead, and bodies have been reported laying on the ground outside. He calmly speaks of how victims were scared and “ran pretty quickly”. Music blares as he describes how the men were inside the building, but the women weren’t yet. “And there were so many people, and the car park was full.”Īn emergency siren is heard in the background as the man continues driving. “There wasn’t even time to aim due to there was so many targets,” the gunman says. In chilling footage believed to have been taken inside one of the gunmen’s cars moments after the massacre, he complains about his weapon malfunctioning and how easy it was to kill people. Picture: Phil Walter/Getty ImagesĪrmed police were deployed as the shooting broke out shortly after 11.40am Melbourne time (1.40pm local time), with the city’s schools and hospitals put into lockdown. Hours after the attack, however, copies of the gruesome video continued to appear on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, raising new questions about the companies’ ability to manage harmful content on their platforms.įacebook is “removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re aware,” Garlick said.Armed police maintain a presence outside a mosque in Auckland after the attacks in Christchurch. “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,” Mia Garlick, Facebook’s director of policy for Australia and New Zealand, said in a statement.

One of the attackers appears to have livestreamed his actions on Facebook, forcing the company to answer for its role in the tragedy. Two gunmen separately attacked mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing dozens of people. The inability to control and moderate social media platforms was highlighted by a tragic shooting in New Zealand. Tech companies seem to have few answers for censoring violent speech online. This article originally ran in 2019 and is part of our annual countdown of the most-viewed stories from PR Daily.

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