Unwitting distribution channels for violent footage
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Periscope, and their peers have built communications tools that have empowered everyday people to broadcast to millions of others, all around the world, in an instant. Yet that very ability comes with extreme consequences when evil people decide to harness those same tools to increase the notoriety they seek for their own horrible actions. That happened today, in a dramatic fashion.
Not long after gunning down a TV reporter and cameraman in Virginia this morning, the suspected shooter, Vester Lee Flanagan II, took to Twitter to promote his first-person video of the murders: "I filmed the shooting see Facebook," he tweeted. Moments later, he posted the videos on Twitter too.
It didn't take long for both Twitter and Facebook to remove the videos and suspend Flanagan's accounts. But, by the time they had, many people had reported seeing the videos, unwittingly, as they spread through the platforms via their respective sharing mechanisms.
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