Subject: Attacking market-demand: Facebook removed 1.5 million videos of New Zealand attack within 24 hours Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:45 pm
Facebook said Sunday that it removed or blocked from the social media site 1.5 million videos of a gunman's rampage on two New Zealand mosques that killed 50 people and wounded dozens more. Mia Garlick, spokeswoman for Facebook New Zealand, said that about 300,000 videos were removed within the first 24 hours of the terrorist attack Friday. More than 1.2 million were blocked at upload, she said.