YouTube's strategy to try to eradicate the video of the New Zealand massacre

YouTube announced today that it would be pulling out "tens of thousands" of videos from your platform showing the terrorist attack last Friday in Christchurch (New Zealand), which caused 50 dead and 50 injured, and that was broadcast live on Facebook.

In a statement, the video page owned by Alphabet (parent company of Google) explained that the volume of attack records uploaded to the network by users from the original retransmission, which was immediately eliminated, "is unprecedented in both scale and speed."

The speed at which the videos were posted on YouTube in the hours that followed the attack he reached a new download every second, said the company had said it had eliminated the accounts "they promoted or glorified what happened".

Although the usual procedure of signing to determine whether a content should be eliminated by violating its terms of use includes human observers who review the pre-screening done by a system of artificial intelligencein this case, YouTube removed them and automated the process to streamline it.

The fact that the mbadacre was broadcast live focused on the social networks.

Facebook said today that in its 17 minutes of live streaming, the video only had 200 views and that no user has reported its content during the retransmission.

The first complaint, ensured the social network, he arrived 29 minutes after the start of the recording and 12 after his end. In total, before being deleted, the video was viewed 4,000 times.

In the following 24 hours Facebook removed 1.5 million copies of the video, including 1.2 million were removed from the platform before other users can see them.

For its part, a judge from New Zealand today charged to a teenager two charges for the distribution of images of the attack in both mosques and for having published various documents the week before the attack, including images of the temples with the words "identified objective" and messages encouraging violence.

The one considered by the police, the only author of the murder, the Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, He is in temporary custody after being charged with murder on Saturday.

With information from EFEUSA