Social networks must take some responsibility for their own content

By James Titcomb
Updated April 27 2017 - 9:01am, first published 8:52am
If you were designing a technology purpose-built for attention-seeking monsters, it would probably look something like social media.
If you were designing a technology purpose-built for attention-seeking monsters, it would probably look something like social media.

On Tuesday, Thai police said Wuttisan Wongtalay, a 20-year-old man, had live-streamed himself killing his 11-month-old daughter in two videos before he committed suicide. It took Facebook almost 24 hours to take down the gruesome videos, by which time they had been viewed 370,000 times between them.

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