NEW YORK: Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years. It’s just not clear they’re moving quickly enough.
Police say that when a white gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others – most of them Black – in a “racially motivated violent extremist” shooting in Buffalo on May 14, he livestreamed the attack to the gaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon. It didn’t stay there long; a Twitch spokesperson said it removed the video in less than two minutes.