In 24 hours, Facebook took down 1.5 million videos of New Zealand attack

Within 24 hours of the shootings in New Zealand mosques that left at least 50 people dead, Facebook removed or blocked 1.5 million videos of the attack, the company said Sunday.

The alleged gunman wore a helmet with a camera attached to it, and livestreamed the shootings on Facebook and Twitter. Facebook New Zealand spokeswoman Mia Garlick said that about 300,000 videos of the terror attack were removed from the social media site, and 1.2 million more were blocked at upload.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.