Would you like to be friends?” he said on live video while preparing his attack. Only a handful of people watched the video live, Twitch representatives said. The episode drew dark similarities to the Christchurch massacre in March, when a gunman used Facebook to live-stream a grisly attack on two mosques that left 51 people dead. Last year, viewers watching a live Twitch stream of a Madden 19 video-game tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., saw an eruption of gunfire that injured 11 and left two dead. “When someone commits an act of violence like this, they’re speaking to this community that idealizes these extremist mass shooters.

Source: Washington Post October 17, 2019 15:00 UTC