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Friday, 9 December 2016

NDM #25: Facebook lets rightwing site repost torture video after it was removed


Facebook has been misused in the past with content such as pornography and videos of ISIS beheading circulating on the social media site. The Daily Caller, a right-wing publication has re-posted a graphic video of an attack of a disabled man in Chicago.
'The 30-minute attack, which shows a man bound, gagged and cut with a knife, was viewed live by 16,000 people and eventually removed by Facebook for violating its community standards. Facebook prohibits the celebration or glorification of crimes on its platform.' - The Guardian.

  • The video was watched more than 7 million times and shared more than 200,000 times.
  • Facebook struggles to deal with cases like this just like this re-posted source, the publication dodged getting fined for their actions since it had a message on the left side (as seen in the picture) that is supposed spread the negativity of hate-crimes.
  • After the Facebook Live broadcast, four suspects were charged with hate crimes, kidnapping and battery.  


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