Malaysian airline company AirAsia\u2019s CEO Tony Fernandes has deleted his Facebook account over the circulation of a video of Friday\u2019s mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch that claimed 50 lives, saying the social media giant needs to \u201cclean up\u201d and it \u201ccould have done more to stop\u201d such hatred on online platforms, according to a media report.<\/p>\n
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 \u201csocial media fan\u201d, the livestream caused him to leave Facebook, the CNN reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Malaysian airline company AirAsia\u2019s CEO Tony Fernandes has deleted his Facebook account over the circulation of a video of Friday\u2019s mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch that claimed 50 lives, saying the social media giant needs to \u201cclean up\u201d and it \u201ccould have done more to stop\u201d 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}