Police stand guard as religious representatives perform a special blessing ceremony on the site of Friday's shooting outside the Linwood mosque in Christchurch on Monday. Photo: APNew Zealand police probing the online presence of the Australian charged with killing 50 in a terror attack on mosques are being met with resistance from some websites. Investigators have been looking into 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant's involvement in far-right chat boards and other internet activity since the attack in Christchurch on Friday. Tarrant posted a rambling 74-page "manifesto" online and foreshadowed the shootings on at least one other controversial forum popular among alt-right groups. "Social media companies are international businesses and it's up to the international community to force them to act," he said on Tuesday.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 19, 2019 01:30 UTC