accidents, suicide and a scene of torture are streamed online have revived a lively debate in the United States in recent days.
In 2016, Facebook live, the tool for the dissemination of live video to Facebook, has repeatedly made the ” a “. Used in June by the terrorist Larossi Abballa to advocate for the assassination of a couple of police officers in Magnanville, the service, very simple to use, had enabled the witnesses to the killing of Dallas (Texas), 7 July, to publish live images of the shooting – during which 5 police officers were killed –, or filming an altercation during which one policeman was killed, without apparent reason, a motorist in a control.
The 5 January, it is a horror scene of another type which has been broadcast live : that of a man tied up and bâilloné, in the suburbs of Chicago, hit several times by four attackers with cries of “picnic Trump” and ” picnic in the blanks “. The Chicago police announced they had arrested four alleged perpetrators of the beatings, explaining that the person seen in the video was suffering from psychiatric problems.
According to the american press, the video has been viewed about 16,000 times before being deleted by Facebook – but copies have been posted on other sites, including YouTube. The victim, threats of death, to a point in the video, has been found in a state of shock by the police during a routine patrol. According to the first elements of the investigation, she knew his assailants ; his days are not in danger.
last month, the deaths of several people were live-streamed on Facebook live in the United States. The video of two men of 18 and 19 years old, killed in a road accident in early December in Pennsylvania, has been viewed 7,000 times before its abolition – the passenger was starting a live broadcast when their vehicle was struck by a truck. In Florida, the police is also investigating the suicide of a young twelve year old girl, who is said to have filmed his hanging live, according to several testimonies, investigators still seek to confirm the existence of this video.
strong emotions after the death of a mother
But it is primarily the death live of a young mother of a family, in Arkansas, which has elicited very strong reactions. Reached of a cancer of the thyroid, Keiana Herndon, 25, was filming a daily video to his friends. On the 28th of December, she is unwell fatal while she was live on the social network with his child. A friend came to his rescue half an hour later, but the young woman was already dead.
The family of Keiana Herndon was violently taken to the people who have watched the video, not understanding why no one had called the rescue, ” while the number of spectators did not cease to increase, “. the ” How can you just sit there, while she is unconscious, and we hear the baby cry ? I don’t understand how a person can just stand by and watch a person die in front of her child, or share video of a child who sees his mother die “, said her uncle with the Washington Post.
In July, Facebook had announced a strengthening of its moderation teams dedicated to the live video, to prevent the dissemination of shocking images, with the establishment of a ” team present 24 hours on 24, seven days a week, to receive reports immediately. “. The social network does not automatically remove the violent videos or shocking, and the videos are reviewed only after they have been reported by users.
The complex case of suicide
But more than the effectiveness of the moderation of Facebook, it is primarily the attitude of the spectators, which generated a lively debate in the United States. A debate that had taken place in France in 2016, after the suicide of a young woman live on the app Periscope, a competitor of Facebook live.
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most of The social networks, including Facebook, have not waited for the development of the live video to put in place systems for the prevention of suicide, including by establishing partnerships with specialized associations. But the topic is particularly delicate, as evidenced by the internal rules of moderation of Facebook, in part revealed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung in December : they provide in particular that the images of self-injury, including open wounds, not ” should be removed if they encourage other people to do the same. In other cases, the images must stay in line for the friends of the person to be able to see this call for help “, note the internal manual.
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