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    Facebook Admits Mosque Shooting Video Was Viewed At Least 4,000 Times

    The video was viewed about 4,000 times before Facebook removed it. Then the social media platform had to contend with more than a million attempted re-uploads.
    by Matthew S. Schwartz Mar 19, 2019 3 minutes

    Updated at 10:15 a.m. ET

    A Facebook vice president said fewer than 200 people saw the Christchurch massacre while it was being streamed live on the site. But the video was viewed about 4,000 times before Facebook removed it, he added. Countless more views occurred in the hours afterward, as copies of the video proliferated more quickly than online platforms like Facebook could remove them.

    Social media and video sharing sites have faced for being slow to respond to the first-ever live-streamed mass shooting, recorded from the first-person perspective of the shooter, the

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