What was unique about Tarrant’s attack-at least insofar as extreme-right terrorism is concerned-is that he livestreamed his atrocity on Facebook and in doing so, highlighted the Achilles heel of such platforms when faced with the viral dissemination of extremely violent content. Camera Icon Brenton Tarrant, gestures as he is lead into the dock for his appearance for murder in the Christchurch District Court.Editor’s note: This article includes a December 28, 2020, addendum with key new details from the December 2020 report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch attacks.Ībstract: In the space of 36 minutes on March 15, 2019, it is alleged that Brenton Tarrant, an Australian far-right extremist, fatally shot 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch in the deadliest terrorist attack in New Zealand’s history. In the first 24 hours after the shooting, Facebook removed about 1.5 million versions of the attack video. The link to the live-stream was posted on anonymous message board 8chan, and shortly after the 17-minute video ended, a download link for it was also posted on the site.įacebook removed the video and “hashed” it to automatically prevent it being uploaded again, but some users added watermarks or edited the video in order to slip it past the detection algorithms. “The first user report on the original video came in 29 minutes after the video started, and 12 minutes after the live broadcast ended.” Camera Icon New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will raise her concerns about live streaming with Facebook. “Including the views during the live broadcast, the video was viewed about 4000 times in total before being removed from Facebook. No users reported the video during the live broadcast,” Mr Sonderby said in a statement on Tuesday. “The video was viewed fewer than 200 times during the live broadcast.
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