“In the first 24 hours we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack globally, of which over 1.2 million were blocked at upload,” Facebook said publicly on March 16. This, Facebook said, was among the reasons the company couldn’t quickly eliminate the footage from its platform, which the killer chose as his medium for his broadcast. The recording was made with that intention - to spread. The video of the Christchurch mosque killings portrays the murder of innocent people from the perspective of their killer, who also used it to disseminate his racist motivations and genocidal worldview.
