{"id":338592,"date":"2017-04-18T07:25:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1477638"},"modified":"2017-04-18T07:25:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:25:32","slug":"facebook-releases-timeline-of-cleveland-shooting-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/facebook-releases-timeline-of-cleveland-shooting-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook releases timeline of Cleveland shooting videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facebook is facing backlash after a Cleveland man uploaded a video of himself shooting someone<\/a> to the social network, and followed it with a Live video confessing to the murder. The slaying and its subsequent distribution across Facebook has raised questions about how the company moderates violent content.<\/p>\n

Justin Osofsky, Facebook\u2019s vice president of global operations, released a statement and timeline of the events and videos surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n

Osofsky\u2019s statements hand off the responsibility for policing content on Facebook to its users, although he acknowledged the company can do better at moderation. He says artificial intelligence and new policies governing how videos are shared could present solutions to the issue, and that Facebook will try to speed up its current review process.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of this terrible series of events, we are reviewing our reporting flows to be sure people can report videos and other material that violates our standards as easily and quickly as possible. In this case, we did not receive a report about the first video, and we only received a report about the second video \u2014 containing the shooting \u2014 more than an hour and 45 minutes after it was posted. We received reports about the third video, containing the man\u2019s live confession, only after it had ended,\u201d Osofsky wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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11:09AM PDT \u2014 First video, of intent to murder, uploaded. Not\u00a0reported to Facebook.
11:11AM PDT \u2014 Second video, of shooting, uploaded.
11:22AM PDT \u2014 Suspect confesses to murder while using Live, is live for 5 minutes.
11:27AM PDT \u2014 Live ends, and Live video is first reported shortly after.
12:59PM PDT \u2014 Video of shooting is first reported.
1:22PM PDT \u2014 Suspect\u2019s account disabled; all videos no longer visible to public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The timeline demonstrates the failures of Facebook\u2019s moderation system, which relies on user reports to flag controversial or violent content. While the Live video of the man\u2019s confession was quickly reported by another user, the video of the killing itself went unreported and therefore remained online for nearly two hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cArtificial intelligence, for example, plays an important part in this work, helping us prevent the videos from being reshared in their entirety. (People are still able to share portions of the videos in order to condemn them or for public awareness, as many news outlets are doing in reporting the story online and on television),\u201d Osofsky said.<\/p>\n

Even with advances in artificial intelligence, it\u2019s not clear that Facebook can prevent Live from being used to broadcast violence. The livestreaming service has already been used to share videos of shootings, torture, and sexual assault. And while\u00a0users are angry at Facebook for allowing the Cleveland killing to be livestreamed, users were also outraged when a \u201ctechnical glitch<\/a>\u201d caused the removal of video documenting the police murder of\u00a0Philando Castile. Osofsky says that the Cleveland videos \u201cgoes against our policies and everything we stand for,\u201d but there are times when users will expect Facebook to preserve violent videos because they have political importance. It\u2019s a delicate balance, and one that isn\u2019t likely to be solved by AI alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook isn\u2019t going to stop a murder. And I don\u2019t care how good the AI gets, it\u2019s unlikely any time soon to say \u2018hey, that video is some person killing another person, don\u2019t stream that.’\u201d Mike Masnick noted on Techdirt<\/a>. \u201cYes, senseless murders and violence lead people to go searching for answers, but sometimes there are no answers. And demanding answers from a random tool that was peripherally used connected to the senseless violence doesn\u2019t seem helpful at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\" Facebook is facing backlash after a Cleveland man uploaded a video of himself shooting someone to the social network, and followed it with a Live video confessing to the murder. The slaying and its subsequent distribution across Facebook has raised questions about how the company moderates violent content. Justin Osofsky, Facebook’s vice president of global operations, released a… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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