SUMMARY:
This past Sunday afternoon, an elderly man was killed in a shooting in Cleveland. The suspect, holding a phone in one hand and a gun in the other, recorded the whole thing to later post on Facebook for all of his friends. After uploading this phenomenon to Facebook, the suspect proceeded to describe the attack later on Facebook Live. Posting status updates and claiming to kill fifteen other people, many saw this man describe his actions for hours. It took "several hours" for Facebook to finally delete the page. However, this is not the only murder to take place on Facebook Live. Quoted by Wired's Emily Dreyfuss, "Since its launch, Live has provided an unedited look at police shootings, rape, torture, and enough suicides that Facebook will be integrating real-time suicide prevention tools into the platform". Facebook is working to decrease the time in which it takes to delete material similar to this, and ultimately stop those individuals from posting it in the first place.
ANALYSIS:
Before reading this article, I had not been aware of the amount of crimes posted to Facebook. If this company continues to fail to deal with this issue, it could majorly decline as a much used social media platform. I wonder what inclines these criminals to put this on the internet for everyone to see. It doesn't benefit them in any way, so what is the purpose? This article is from CNN, a very reliable and current source for news. This synthesizes to the Virginia Tech Massacre that took place 10 years ago. There were many murders, and people would mail into NBC News to rationalize the attack.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/17/media/facebook-cleveland-shooting-social-media/index.html
This is quite horrifying and awful!
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