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Buffalo shooting livestream yanked in under 2 minutes, Twitch says - but critics say not fast enough

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NEW YORK (AP) - Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years.

It's just not clear they're moving quickly enough.Police say that when a white gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others — most of them Black — in a "racially motivated violent extremist" shooting in Buffalo Saturday, he live-streamed the attack to the gaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon.

It didn’t stay there long; a Twitch spokesperson said it removed the video in less than two minutes.That's considerably faster than the 17 minutes Facebook needed to take down a similar video streamed by a self-described white supremacist who killed 51 people in two New Zealand mosques in 2019.

But versions of the Buffalo shooting video still quickly spread to other platforms, and they haven't always disappeared quickly.In April, Twitter enacted a new policy on "perpetrators of violent attacks" to remove accounts maintained by "individual perpetrators of terrorist, violent extremist, or mass violent attacks," along with tweets, manifestos and other material produced by perpetrators of such attacks.

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