The video of last week’s New Zealand terror attack was not reported by a single Facebook user who witnessed the live feed, the social media giant has revealed.
Around 200 people watched the 17-minute Facebook Live stream, but it was only flagged 12 minutes after it had ended.
A link to it was originally posted by the gunman to controversial online messaging board 8chan, along with several links to his manifesto.
Facebook earlier revealed it had removed 1.5 million videos of the attack worldwide in the 24 hours after the shootings, 1.2 million of which were blocked at upload.
The company and other social media firms have come in for intense criticism from the media and politicians over the rapid spread of the footage across the networks and around the world.
