The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) in France on Monday said it is suing Facebook and YouTube for streaming live coverage of the Christchurch massacre on their platforms.

The (CFCM) claims that the mass-shooting at two mosques in New Zealand was publicly livestreamed by the attacker through his Facebook page for 17 minutes.

Few hours after the attack, footage from the stream could still be found on some social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Instagram and Whatsapp.

According to the Guardian Abdallah Zekri, president of the observatory of Islamophobia at the CFCM confirmed the legal complaint.

The council said it was suing the French branches of the two companies for “broadcasting a message with violent content abetting terrorism, or of a nature likely to seriously violate human dignity and liable to be seen by a minor”, according to the complaint.

Facebook says it removed over 1.5 million videos showing viral footage of the Christchurch mosque rampage in the hours and days after the attack.

A U.S. congressional panel last week called on top executives from Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft and Twitter to explain the online proliferation of the “horrific” New Zealand video. The house committee on homeland security said it was “critically important” to filter out the kind of violent images seen in the video.

Source: BREITBART

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