The user did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. According to the BBC, Brenton Tarrant live-streamed the attack via a head-mounted camera. In another case, the video was shared by a verified Instagram user in Indonesia with more than 1.6 million followers. CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND Fifty people are dead, and many more injured after a gunman opened fire in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. In a 15-minute window, Reuters found five copies of the footage on YouTube uploaded under the search term “New Zealand” and tagged with categories including “education” and “people & blogs”. Facebook did not immediately respond to additional questions.

Posted on YouTube by a user who joined the platform in 2011 but has only uploaded the one video, the stream shows a gunman getting into his car, driving to a mosque and opening fire on scores of people inside. Twitter and Google said they were working to stop the footage being reshared. A disturbing live stream of what is believed to be the Christchurch mosque shooting has emerged online. Facebook said it had deleted the gunman’s accounts “shortly after the livestream commenced” after being alerted by police.īut Reuters found videos of the shooting on all five platforms up to 10 hours after the attacks, which began at 1345 local time in the city of Christchurch. The live footage of Friday’s attacks, New Zealand’s worst-ever mass shooting, was first posted to Facebook and has since been shared on Twitter, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube and Facebook-owned Whatsapp and Instagram.įacebook, Twitter and YouTube all said they had taken steps to remove copies of the videos. Bloodied bandages on the road following a shooting at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 15, 2019.

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