After each new horrific mass shooting, an all-too-familiar cycle often plays out: Reporters (myself included) race to attempt to unpack an alleged shooter’s possible motivations by piecing together clues from their social media accounts and online postings before it all gets scrubbed from the internet. We do this in the hopes that it will ...
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The online spread of a video from a shooting at two mosques in Christchurch Friday shows the limits of social media moderation.
At least 49 people were murdered Friday (15/03/2019) at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in an attack that followed a grim playbook for terrorism in the social media era. The shooter apparently seeded warnings ...
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Facebook and YouTube are struggling to keep videos of a terror attack designed to go viral off their platforms.
For every video of the mass shooting in New Zealand that YouTube and Facebook block, another two or three seem to replace it.
On Friday, a gunman in Christchurch attacked Muslims praying at a mosque ...
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Kiwis could be future leaders in the billion-dollar global blockchain market across government and industry, BlockchainNZ executive director Mark Pascall says.
Blockchain is at its heart a decentralised distributed ledger – which is a way of replicating and sharing data between networked computers - which records the transaction of data, ...
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