Malaysian airline company AirAsia’s CEO Tony Fernandes has deleted his Facebook account over the circulation of a video of Friday’s mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch that claimed 50 lives, saying the social media giant needs to “clean up” and it “could have done more to stop” such hatred on online platforms, according to a media report.
A horrific video shot by the gunman who carried out the mosque massacre was livestreamed on Facebook before being removed by the company. But the stream, lasting 17 minutes, was shared repeatedly on YouTube and Twitter, and internet platforms were scrambling to remove videos being reposted of the gruesome scenes. In a series of tweets on Sunday, Fernandes, who had 670,000 followers, said though he was a “social media fan”, the livestream caused him to leave Facebook, the CNN reported.
