Facebook actions fell after the New Zealand massacre

The Facebook shares closed Friday with a 2.77% drop on the New York Stock Exchange after the live transmission through this social network of one of the shootings recorded today in two mosques in New Zealand, where at least 49 people were killed.

The live images of the attack, that hours after the attack were still shared on social networks, They have been uploaded to Facebook and subsequently, they were shared on Twitter, YouTube, Whatsapp and Instagram, the latter two apps also owned by Facebook.

In this transmission via Facebook Live, Brenton Tarranten appears with military clothes inside the Masjid Al Noor mosque, firing several people with an automatic weapon.and during the 17 minutes that lasted the filming, he came to change magazines at least twice.

Strictly speaking, the terrorist filmed and shared the attack from the LIVE4 mobile app, which allows direct transmission to Facebook using action cameras attached to the body.

The application is generally used to share extreme sports videos and live music, but the attacker uses a software similar to that of video games because it adopts the subjective point of view of the shooter while specifying his plan.

Facebook's criticism had an impact on the share price of the company that had already been affected after Wednesday's failures and the announcement, in the last hours, that will no longer have two of his executives at the highest level: The product manager, Chris Coxand the manager of WhatsApp, Chris Daniels.

In a public letter to his employees, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of the company, revealed that Cox and Daniels had decided to leave the company after 13 and 8 years respectively.

Cox was one of the first engineers on Facebook and is considered a very close and personal friend of Zuckerberg.Daniels was vice president of the WhatsApp messaging application for less than a year after leading the Internet.org project.