But technology played a more visible - and arguably more troubling - role in publicizing the violence itself and, by extension, the hate-filled ideology behind it.Īnd yet again, the biggest players in America’s rich, massive and sophisticated technology industry - YouTube, Twitter and Facebook - failed to rapidly quell this spread as it metastasized across platforms, bringing horrific images to internet users in a worldwide, dystopian video loop. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Amplified Video of Christchurch Mosque Shooting by Hamza Shaban, Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell and Andrew Ba Tran – Washington Postįriday’s slaughter in two New Zealand mosques, like mass shootings before it, had its seeds on one of the darkest corners of the Internet, a chat room where anonymous people appeared to talk openly about the attack before, during and after it happened.
