Facebook Murder Video: Facebook Took 3 Hours to Remove It

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Cleveland Police Search For Suspect Who Posted Murder video On FacebookAuthorities in Cleveland are looking for a man they say committed a murder on Sunday and posted the video on Facebook. A warrant for aggravated murder has been issued for 37-year-old Steve Stephens.


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Facebook Murder Video: Facebook Took 3 Hours to Remove It

The man, identified as 37-year-old Steve Stephens, appears to shoot a 74-year-old man in the head in a Facebook video, according to the Associated Press . While Facebook removed the video, it took the company three hours to do so. A Cleveland man who claimed to have killed up to 15 people in a video uploaded to Facebook Sunday is now being sought by police for murder — after Facebook left a gruesome video up for several hours. Police are calling for those in Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana and Michigan to be on the lookout for the man, according to the AP. "This is a horrific crime and we do not allow this kind of content on Facebook," a company spokesperson told the AP .

Facebook Murder Video: Facebook Took 3 Hours to Remove It

Facebook Streams a Murder in Cleveland, and Must Now Face Itself
[UPDATE: 4/16/17 8:29 P.M. PST — Facebook has responded to various news reports, claiming that while Steve Stephens did post a Facebook Live at some point during the day, the shooting in question was not broadcast via Facebook Live. Facebook has long relied on an army of humans to scour videos uploaded to its site. The video is shaky, like so many other handheld Facebook videos. With videos, and especially Live videos, that job goes from hard to impossible—not even Facebook employees can watch a video before it posts. After all, if Facebook hopes to reflect humanity, today's murder suggests that it will sometimes show us things we'd prefer not to see.


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