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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/17\/23100579\/buffalo-shooting-twitch-livestream-viral-content-moderation<\/a>
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When a gunman pulled into the parking lot at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday in a racist attack targeting a Black community, his camera was already rolling.<\/p>\n

CNN reports that a livestream on Twitch<\/a> recorded from the suspect\u2019s point of view showed shoppers in the parking lot as the alleged shooter arrived, then followed him inside as he began a rampage that killed 10 people and injured three. Twitch, popular for gaming livestreams, removed the video and suspended the user \u201cless than two minutes after the violence started,\u201d according to Samantha Faught, the company\u2019s head of communications for the Americas. Just 22 people<\/a> saw the attack unfold in real time online, The Washington Post <\/em>reports.<\/p>\n

But millions saw the livestream footage after the fact. Copies and links to the reposted video proliferated online after the attack, spreading to major platforms like Twitter and Facebook as well as lesser-known sites like Streamable, where the video was viewed more than 3 million times, according to The New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time perpetrators of mass shootings have broadcast their violence live online with footage subsequently spreading. In 2019, a gunman attacked mosques in New Zealand\u2019s Christchurch, live streaming his killings on Facebook. The platform said it removed 1.5 million videos<\/a> of the attack in the 24 hours following. Three years later, with footage from Buffalo reuploaded and reshared days after the deadly attack, platforms continue to struggle with stemming the tide of violent, racist, and antisemitic content created from the original.<\/p>\n

Moderating livestreams is especially difficult as things unfold in real time, says Rasty Turek, CEO of Pex, a company that creates content identification tools. Turek, who spoke to The Verge <\/em>following the Christchurch shootings<\/a>, says if Twitch was indeed able to disrupt the stream and take it down within two minutes of its beginning, that response would be \u201cridiculously fast.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat is not only not industry standard, that is an achievement that was unprecedented in comparison to a lot of other platforms like Facebook,\u201d Turek says. Faught says Twitch removed the stream mid-broadcast but did not respond to questions around how long the alleged shooter was broadcasting before violence began or how Twitch was initially alerted to the stream.<\/p>\n

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