YouTube tweeted early Friday that the company was “working vigilantly to remove any violent footage.”Ī series of searches on YouTube conducted by NBC News on Friday morning based on keywords related to the shooting turned up more than a dozen versions of the video that included graphic violence uploaded in under an hour, according to details publicly available on the platform. The video then began to spread around the internet, including on YouTube and Twitter. Facebook had removed the profile associated with the livestream about an hour and a half the video first started streaming. The livestream was taken down after about 20 minutes, according to timestamped archives of the Facebook page seen by NBC News. We will continue working directly with New Zealand Police as their response and investigation continues.”įacebook was not able to remove the video before it had been captured by viewers.

“We're also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re aware. “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 in Australia and New Zealand, said in an emailed statement. The video was originally livestreamed on Facebook, which released a statement in the hours after the shooting detailing the company’s plans to limits its spread.

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