Cleveland killing leads Facebook to review handling of videos - News Summed Up

Cleveland killing leads Facebook to review handling of videos


Cleveland Facebook killer hunted by policeThe shooting was the latest violent incident shown on Facebook, raising questions about how the company moderates huge amounts of content uploaded from around the world. Menlo Park, California-based Facebook released a timeline of events related to Stephens, something it had not done after other violent incidents. Two minutes later at 2:11 p.m. EDT, Stephens uploaded a video of the shooting. The shooting video was not reported by Facebook users until 3:59 p.m. EDT and Stephens' account was disabled at 4:22 p.m. EDT, Facebook's timeline showed. "We disabled the suspect's account within 23 minutes of receiving the first report about the murder video, and two hours after receiving a report of any kind.


Source: The Star April 17, 2017 23:03 UTC



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