Such atrocities invariably raise questions about how news organizations should cover acts of violence. A spokesperson for the Mail said that publishing the manifesto to its website was done “in error.”

Lloyd Embley, the group editor in chief of the Mirror, confirmed in a statement that the video was uploaded in violation of the newspaper’s policies. Only after backlash did the newspapers remove the content from their websites. Read: The shooter’s manifesto was designed to troll

The Mail even hosted the suspect’s full manifesto, which was available for download directly from its website. The Sun, the U.K.’s most widely read newspaper, ran a GIF from the video on its homepage. The Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror, which are among the most popular newspapers in the United Kingdom, published edited versions of the video to their websites. New Zealand police urged the public not to share the content.īut these materials were still readily available in one corner of the internet: the British press. Accounts associated with the suspected perpetrators were suspended, and copies of a 74-page manifesto posted by one of the suspects were taken down. Social-media sites including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube said they were removing footage of the attack, which was broadcast live to Facebook, from their platforms. By the time the news of mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, spread around the world, the effort to remove materials left behind by a suspect in the terror attack online was already well under way.

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