Even as they add more human reviewers, the explosive growth of video has swamped buffed-up controls.įacebook, already in the uncomfortable spotlight as the U.S. The rapid spread of the video, even after Facebook and YouTube started to take it down, underscored the scale of the problem created by platforms that have used a largely automated process to remote bad content. In the aftermath of the shooting, clips of the live stream continued to get shared. Google, YouTube’s parent company, also said it was doing its best to remove the video clips.
