By the time Facebook removed the 17-minute video, it had been viewed roughly 4,000 times, the company said. Not a single user who encountered the video during the live broadcast reported it during that time, Facebook said. It would be encountered thousands more times before New Zealand police reported the content to Facebook. Sonderby said Facebook removed the video “within minutes” of receiving the alert from police. One woman from Tauranga, New Zealand, is leading a 50-hour Facebook blackout in memory of the 50 victims, the New Zealand Herald reported.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2019 09:04 UTC