A gunman killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in New York on Saturday, the attack was broadcast on live-streaming site Twitch.
The suspect is Peyton Gunderland, an 18-year-old white man from Conklin, New York, who was arrested after shooting 13 people at Tops Friendly Market. Eleven of the victims were black, and officials said the shooting was taking place. Investigate as a hate crime.
Twitch said it removed the livestream from its platform within two minutes of the violence that started at the grocery store.
In a statement, a Twitch spokesperson said the site “has a zero tolerance policy for violence of any kind and takes prompt action to respond to all incidents. This user has been suspended from our service indefinitely and we are taking all appropriate action.” , including monitoring any accounts that rebroadcast this content.”
After the violence, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul slammed social media companies, saying there was a frenzy on the platform that “feeds” hate and that social media companies need to be “more vigilant” in monitoring content.
“It’s a responsibility to me that this brutality, this execution of innocents can be live-streamed on social media platforms and not taken down in a second,” said Democrat Hocher. said in a comment after shooting.
“We’re going to continue to work on this and make sure the people who provide these platforms are ethical and moral, and I hope there’s a legal responsibility to make sure these sites don’t have this kind of hate because that’s the result,” she added.
The alleged gunman also released a 180-page hateful manifesto to 4chan in which he made anti-immigrant views and described his plans to target black people.
The attack marks the latest instance of violence being broadcast to the public, raising questions about the responsibility of platforms such as Amazon-owned Twitch.
In 2019, a Christchurch Gunners, New Zealand, used Facebook to livestream the attack that killed 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques. Later that year, a gunman in Germany used Twitch Live stream of attack outside synagogue Killed two people.
