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Facebook Streams a Murder, and Must Now Face Itself
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Facebook Streams a Murder, and Must Now Face Itself
EMILY DREYFUSS
CULTURE
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 04.16.17.
TIME OF PUBLICATION: 9:26 PM.
Wired
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/facebook-live-murder-steve-stephens/
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In the video, a man that Cleveland police have identified as 37-year-old
Steve Stephens gets out of his car and approaches an elderly shopper
carrying a grocery bag. Stephens demands his target repeat a womans
namethe woman who he is apparently making this video for. By this point
the barrel of the gun is visible in the frame, and the victim senses that
something is very wrong. As Stephens fires a single shot, the camera
jostles away, so it actually misses the one moment he was seemingly so
intent on capturingbut when it pans back, his victim is lying in a pool of
blood. That motherfucker dead cause of you, Stephens concludes, addressing
his intended audience.
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In a brief press conference held at 6pm CTbroadcast on Facebook
LiveCleveland police chief Calvin Williams claimed that, while Stephens
had asserted that he had killed 13 people today, law enforcement officials
had found no evidence of any other murders; Robert Godwin, 74, seems to be
the only victim. Then again, when this article was published, Stephens was
still at large, the subject of a massive manhunt by federal and state
authorities. We have brought everything to bear on this, Williams said.
Everybody is out there looking for Steve. Presumably, when authorities do
find Stephens, it will be in part because of clues embedded in the video
he so freely shared: the make and model of his car; details of his
physical appearance; what hes wearing.
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And when the manhunt is over, and the grieving begins, so too will
Facebooks soul-searching.
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Facebook is not the first media company to struggle with the prospect of
unwittingly broadcasting violence shortly after being uploaded. When news
anchor Christine Chubbuck killed herself on live TV in 1974, the station
was unable to stop the event from airing, but never showed the footage
again. The number of viewers who actually saw the event was minimal.
Facebook has taken similar steps, pulling Stephens video shortly after it
was posted. This is a horrific crime and we do not allow this kind of
content on Facebook, the company said in a statement. We work hard to keep
a safe environment on Facebook, and are in touch with law enforcement in
emergencies when there are direct threats to physical safety.
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But Facebook, of course, is a decentralized system, with millions of
freelance reporters with unfettered access to the public. By the time the
company removed the video, thousands had already watched it, and it lives
on in other corners of the internet. Meanwhile, the company has resisted
calls to use its algorithms to censor videos like this before they are
ever postednot just because it does not want to be accused of violating
speech rights, but also because training computers to identify real-time
or recent murder is hard. Facebook has long relied on an army of humans to
scour videos uploaded to its site. With videos, and especially Live
videos, that job goes from hard to impossiblenot even Facebook employees
can watch a video before it posts.
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Currently, Facebook relies on other Facebook users to flag videos that
need to be taken down. But that means that someone has to watch the horror
before others can be spared it. The onus falls to the viewers, not the
company, to determine what is appropriate, what should be shared, and what
should be flagged for removal.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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