The Post

Twitter misses upload

- RNZ reporter

Clips from the terrorist’s video of the Christchur­ch mosque attacks were uploaded last week to Twitter, which did not pick them up as harmful.

Other users reported the videos and the Government separately raised it with the company on Friday night.

A spokespers­on for the prime minister said that Twitter’s automated reporting function failed to identify the content as harmful.

Twitter advised the Government overnight on Friday the clips had been taken down and it would do a sweep for other instances.

The prime minister’s office said as a member of the Christchur­ch Call community of 120 government­s and online service providers, Twitter was expected to remove terrorist content published on its platform.

Netsafe’s chief safety officer, Sean Lyons, has reminded people they can face criminal charges for interactin­g with illegal online content.

Lyons said if people saw anything concerning, they should report it immediatel­y to the platform concerned and to the Department of Internal Affairs.

He said the Christchur­ch terror footage has resurfaced before and can be swiftly dealt with. –

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