The gunman broadcast his attack live on Facebook. Police can now confirm the man arrested in relation to the Christchurch terror attacks will face 50 Murder and 39 Attempted Murder charges when he appears in the High Court in Christchurch on Friday 5 April.
No further details were provided.Christchurch terror attacks - further charges laid. In a recent post to Twitter, Musk told his 119 million followers that hate speech was down by a third from its pre-spike levels in October and produced a chart. Thousands of content moderators, as well as the human rights teams, have been laid off since Musk’s takeover, and the platform has been struggling to police harmful content, including the proliferation of misinformation accounts and racist tweets in the lead up to the World Cup. Writing for the Conversation, Markus Luczak-Roesch, an Associate Professor in Information Systems at Victoria University of Wellington, said Musk’s takeover has been disruptive to the Christchurch Call, with the entire Twitter team the government was planning to work with gone after lay-offs. But also, if misused, they can do a huge amount of harm.” But she said that partnership was in “unknown territory” after Elon Musk’s takeover of the company.Īrdern urged Musk – the world’s richest man and self-described free speech absolutist – to “stick strongly to the principle of transparency”, adding that social media platforms like Twitter “can be a force for democracy, a force for connection and for good. The Guardian attempted to contact Twitter for a response but received no reply.Įarlier this month, Ardern told a national security, disinformation and online extremism summit that Twitter has been deeply involved in the Christchurch Call “and – to date – been a really constructive partner”. “We will continue to maintain our expectation that everything they can on a day-to-day basis to remove that content but also to reduce terrorist content and violent extremist content online, as they’ve committed to,” Ardern said. Speaking to media on Monday afternoon, Ardern said that while “time will tell” over Twitter’s commitment to removing harmful content, the company had advised the government it had not changed its view over its membership to the Christchurch Call community. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey had supported the initiative.
The mosque attack was livestreamed on multiple social media platforms and the terrorist’s manifesto published online.Īrdern launched the Christchurch Call after the attack, asking social media companies to counter online extremism and misinformation.
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