![]() ![]() “It’s a tragedy because you only need one copy of the video for this thing to live forever online and endlessly multiply,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who studies social media. That didn’t stop people from spreading screen recordings of the Twitch livestream - and the shooter’s writings - all over the internet, where they racked up millions of views, some of which came via links shared widely on Facebook and Twitter. When Twitch cut off the stream, it reportedly had just 22 views. This time, the shooter shared his appalling acts on Twitch, a livestreaming video app popular with gamers, where it was shut down much more quickly, less than two minutes after the violence began, according to the company. ![]() ![]() Saturday’s racially motivated made-for-the-internet mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, went differently. After the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shooting in 2019, Facebook was widely criticized for allowing the shooter to livestream his killings for 17 minutes uninterrupted. ![]()
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