A Facebook spokesperson, however, said "the video did violate our policies and has been removed". The video does not show the full attack, and stops at the 01:15 mark. One of the clips shows the terrorist walking up to the first mosque he targeted, and opening fire. In one instance, instead of removing the video, which shows the terrorist shooting and murdering innocent civilians from a first-person perspective, Facebook has simply marked the clip as potentially containing "violent or graphic content". Some of the videos are slices of the original 17-minute clip - trimmed down to one minute or so - and are open to be viewed by anyone. "The world's biggest and most well-resourced social media network is still hosting copies of the violent attack video on its own platform as well as Instagram," the report claimed.
According to a report in Motherboard on Friday, certain videos on Facebook and Instagram show sections of the raw attack footage.
Despite Facebook's claim that the livestreaming video of the March 15 Christchurch shooting that killed 50 people was removed from its platforms, sections of the raw footage are still available for users to watch, the media reported.