No comparisons

The spread of the livestream video of Sunday’smass shooting in Buffalo, New York, was ‘‘not even comparable’’ to the reach of the livestream posted by the March 15 terrorist in 2019. Anjum Rahman, who is co-chair of the Christchurch Call advisory network, said the spread of the content related to the Buffalo attackwas ‘‘certainly better’’ than the March 15 video whichwas seen 4 million times in the hours it took to remove it. There were interactions on Facebook and Twitter alone in the thousands, whichwas ‘‘not even comparable’’ to the Christchurch attack viewings. Acting chief censor Rupert Ablett-Hampson yesterday said the video and the manifesto of a white supremacist shooting people in Buffalo had been banned.

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