Social media platforms, such as Facebook, have been facing scrutiny after the shooter accused of killing dozens of people in two mosques in New Zealand live-streamed the murders over the internet. Representatives for Twitter and Alphabet’s Google and YouTube also gave evidence. as part of a parliamentary inquiry into hate crime. Potts was giving evidence Wednesday to a committee of senior lawmakers in the U.K. Because of the nature of the video, Facebook’s artificial intelligence-used to detect and prioritize videos that are likely to contain suicidal or harmful acts-did not work. Terror footage from a first-person perspective “was a type of video we had not seen before,” he added.
“This was a first-person shooter video, one where we have someone using a GoPro helmet with a camera focused from their perspective of shooting,” Neil Potts, Facebook’s public policy director, told British lawmakers Wednesday.
