Questions need to be asked of Facebook, which allowed the 17 minute Live stream to be broadcast on its platform, for millions to see. This is where the role of technology is questioned, and rightly so. At last count according to reports, 40 people had been pronounced dead in the attack, and many are injured. It is reported that he was wearing a GoPro Camera on himself, and the video footage of him driving up to the mosque, calmly walk in with weapons in hand and then go on a shooting spree are now available easily on the world wide web, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, if you look carefully. That is before Silicon valley could react. Manifesto shared before he drove off, Livestreamed killing innocent people on Facebook, video shared by many on Twitter and more. Instead, it was livestreamed by the gunman himself, believed to be a 28-year old Australian Brenton Tarrant. It was not recorded on a phone by a bystander or recorded on CCTV cameras at either mosque. When a gunman went on a rampage at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, the last thing one expected to emerge from the horrific incident was what turned out to be the Live footage of the shooting spree.
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