A search on YouTube for "Bryce Williams" Wednesday afternoon show at least three clips of the incident that could be viewed. However, this is a constant battle against people who take original videos and repost them. Google also relies partly on YouTube users to police the videos posted on its service and flag any that violate community guidelines. While Twitter has suspended the original account, the video can still be found on the social media because it has been posted again by other users. Speed matters because the longer the content remains visible, the ability to contain it becomes more hopeless as people share and repost it on other sites. Instead, it relies on users to flag it for removal, and the process for reviewing those reports haven’t significantly changed. The company still doesn't go looking for sensitive content. Twitter has become noticeably faster at removing such content after being criticized for its lack of speed in the past. The video of the shooting was removed within minutes of its posting, while suspending an ISIS account that posted images of photojournalist James Foley’s execution last August took several hours.īut that may be more a reflection of an increasingly proactive user population rather than an improvement on Twitter’s part. Twitter and YouTube have rushed to scrub grisly images posted by ISIS, for example. Facebook said it removed a profile and page created by the suspect for "violating our community standards." Those rules state that Facebook prohibits "celebrating any crimes you've committed." A Google spokeswoman said: “YouTube has clear policies against videos of gratuitous violence and we remove them when they're flagged."īattling violent content is a common occurrence for these companies. The 56-second video shows him approaching the two journalists, waiting until they were live, then pointing and shooting at Alison Parker, the on air reporter.Ī Twitter spokesman said the company does not comment on individual accounts. Flanagan, who opened the Twitter account last week, filmed the shooting from his point of view. Another video on YouTube was recorded by someone pointing a smartphone camera at the original video on a Web browser.
Some users captured the video and have reposted it on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube – one video on Facebook had more than 3,000 views a few hours after the shooting. Both companies have options to turn off auto-playing video. But the original video was quickly shared several hundred times on Twitter and Facebook, which meant the video began to automatically play in some feeds of users who didn’t choose to see it.
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