Live-streaming, he added, enables “terrorists to have a much greater impact. “The purpose of terrorism is always to reach the greatest number of people possible with the most horrific or spectacular attack that you can perform.” Brooking, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which researches how information spreads online. One link to that copy on Facebook received more than 500 comments and 46,000 shares Facebook did not remove it for more than 10 hours. One copy made its way onto the little-known video site Streamable, where, thanks to links posted on much larger sites, it was viewed more than 3 million times before it was removed.
A jumble of video-hosting sites, extremist message boards and some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names did the rest, ensuring millions of people would view the video. When the Buffalo gunman broadcast the shooting in real time Saturday on the live-streaming site Twitch, only 22 people were watching, and company officials said they’d removed it with remarkable speed - within two minutes of the first gunshots.īut all it took was for one viewer to save a copy and redistribute it online.
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