Charge against Facebook and YouTube regarding Christchurch

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On March 15, a group representing France's Muslims filed a lawsuit against Facebook on Facebook and YouTube in a protest against the spread of Christchurch in New Zealand.

On 15 March, two mosques fired in New Zealand, killing 50 people and at the same time live streamed for 17 minutes on Facebook, and without any delay the video was shared over to social media sites across the Internet and YouTube.

The French Council of Muslim Fight (CFCM) submitted legal papers against two technology companies in response to the spread of the video contained in the terrorist attack of Christchurch city on the basis of the spread in the social platform. They say, companies promote terrorism and promote such things that harm human dignity. There was no immediate comment from the companies.

CFCM president Ahmed Vargas told CNN that taking the legal process against Facebook for not restricting the rapid spread of video.

CfcM Islam phobia Observatory Unit President Abdullah Zakri said the agency has submitted formal legal complaint against Facebook and YouTube in France.

According to the Facebook authorities, they have removed hundreds of copies of the video from their platform. However, video footage is available for several hours after Facebook, Twitter, Instagram WhatsApp and Utu attacks.

A spokesman for the Federation of Islamic Association of New Zealand (FINZ) Federation welcomes the French party's activities. He said his organization had planned to contact Facebook to register their complaints, but they were still busy after the attack, hence they could not file a case.

A statement published on the Facebook website said that nearly 15 million shared videos were removed from the video of the attack within the first 24 hours. Nearly 12 blocked video uploads, which means that Facebook users cannot see it. However, Facebook authorities failed to say the amount of viewers for the rest of the 3 million views of the content.

A Facebook spokesman told the BBC, "Facebook is not a place of bad activity and hate speech by a terrorist. We have compassion for the families of the victims and the families affected by this tragedy. Immediately after the attack, we quickly took the initiative to remove the video from our platform. Besides, we are cooperating with the authorities. "

One has been charged with a count of murder in Christchurch shooting and will appear in court on April 5.