
State-owned Lotto NZ said it had already pulled advertising from social media "as the tone didn't feel right in the aftermath of these events".ĪSB Bank, one of the country's biggest banks and a unit of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, is also in talks on whether to pull its ads from social media, a spokesman said.

In light of the debate over the responsibility of social media in the video's circulation, some New Zealand companies are weighing up whether to ditch the platform for advertising. Social media platforms 'unable or unwilling' to take action However, he stopped short of proposing new laws to govern online content and the organisations that host it. Mr Morrison said he wanted social media companies to write algorithms to screen out hate content. He said he had written to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urging him to allow a discussion on the issue when G-20 leaders met in Osaka in June - however, the Coalition would have to win the federal election for Mr Morrison to take part. Police said four people - three men and a woman - had been taken into custody, and that they had found and neutralised a number of IEDS (improved explosive devices).Ī Palestinian man who was in one of the mosques said he saw someone being shot in the head.Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he wanted world leaders to discuss how they could crack down on social media companies to prevent similar videos from being spread online. Witnesses spoke of seeing bloodied bodies, with children also believed to be among the dead, and police warned of "extremely distressing footage" of the incident circulating on the internet. New Zealand mosque shooting video being removed from internet "From what we know, it does appear to have been well planned," she said, adding that in addition to the dead another 20 people were seriously injured.

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern said attacks on two Christchurch mosques have left at least 40 dead Friday.

CHRISTCHURCH: One of the gunmen, Brenton Tarrant, live streamed the audacious attack on the Muslim worshipers on Facebook with a camera fitted to his helmet.īangladesh cricket team escapes Christchurch mosque shooting nine killed
