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: The 17-minute video was livestreamed on Facebook Live using a head-mounted camera. It showed the attacker driving to and entering the Al Noor mosque, where he carried out the first of two attacks.

: Despite the livestream having fewer than 200 live viewers, copies were almost immediately uploaded to other platforms. In the first 24 hours, Facebook removed 1.5 million videos of the attack, 1.2 million of which were blocked at the point of upload. video-christchurch-shooting-leak

: Uploaders used various methods to bypass automated detection, including adding watermarks, altering video size, or even turning the footage into animations. : The 17-minute video was livestreamed on Facebook

The Christchurch mosque shooting, which occurred on March 15, 2019, was a horrific terrorist attack that was purposefully engineered for virality through a livestreamed video. The Video and Its Dissemination In the first 24 hours, Facebook removed 1