The Association of New Zealand Advertisers and the Commercial Communications Council asked all advertisers to consider where they placed their ads, and challenged Facebook and other platform owners to take steps to moderate hate content. State-owned Lotto NZ said it had already pulled advertising from social media "as the tone didn't feel right in the aftermath of these events".ĪSB Bank, one of the country's biggest banks and a unit of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, is also in talks on whether to pull its ads from social media, a spokesman said. In light of the debate over the responsibility of social media in the video's circulation, some New Zealand companies are weighing up whether to ditch the platform for advertising. Social media platforms 'unable or unwilling' to take action However, he stopped short of proposing new laws to govern online content and the organisations that host it. Mr Morrison said he wanted social media companies to write algorithms to screen out hate content. He said he had written to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urging him to allow a discussion on the issue when G-20 leaders met in Osaka in June - however, the Coalition would have to win the federal election for Mr Morrison to take part.
If this account breaks our policies in the future, we’ll notify you.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he wanted world leaders to discuss how they could crack down on social media companies to prevent similar videos from being spread online. We know this isn’t the answer you’re looking for. Twitter replied: “After reviewing the available information, we want to let you know hasn’t broken our safety policies. Video of the Christchurch mosque shootings has resurfaced on Twitter - but the social media giant initially refused to remove the terror clip, claiming the reported account that posted it “hasn’t broken our safety policies”.įollowing Herald inquiries and an intervention by the Department of Internal Affairs, Twitter has now pulled the content, which had been viewed by more than 1000 accounts.ĭespite the video of Brenton Tarrant’s attack being illegal in New Zealand, a June 18 post with the video appeared in a Kiwi user’s “For You” feed.
Armed police guard the Masjid Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch in 2019.
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