Zuckerberg wants livestreaming to stay as intended: live.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with Good Morning America that it will not delay livestreams despite demands to do so after the New Zealand massacre.
Some think that delaying livestreams could potentially avoid what happened in the massacre, which involved gunmen broadcasting live on Facebook while gunning down people inside two Mosques at Christchurch, New Zealand.
While Zuckerberg admitted that delaying the live broadcast of the gunman could’ve limited the number of views it had gotten, “it would also fundamentally break what livestreaming is for people.” Zuckerberg also says, “Most people are livestreaming, you know, a birthday party or hanging out with friends when they can’t be together. Livestreaming is more than broadcasting– it’s communicating, because people comment in real time. So if you had a delay, that would break that.”
According to the Zuckerberg, the artificial intelligence that was supposed to catch such acts on livestreams failed to recognize them as such, even though the NZ shooting livestream ran for more than 17 minutes. “That was a really terrible event. We need to build our systems to be able to identify livestream terror events more quickly.”
