It was the sight of gore and brutality of New Zealend’s Christchurch shooting that made AirAsia CEO, Tony Fernandes, finally click the delete button. The terrorist attack at a mosque during Friday prayers has claimed 50 lives and the entire saga was streamed live on Facebook for 17 minutes.
In a tweet to his 670,000 followers, Tony cited that Facebook needs to do a better job to “clean up” the videos following the Christchurch attack. “The amount of hate that goes on in social media sometimes outweighs the good,” he said in a tweet Sunday.
https://twitter.com/tonyfernandes/status/1107123988864491520
The AirAsia CEO who is very candid on social media said that the New Zealand shooting and all the other hate was too much for him to handle. Facebook said that it has removed over 1.5 million videos of the attack on its social platform that houses over 22 billion active users.
Earlier last week, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton urged people to delete their Facebook accounts at his talk at Stanford University. Many have spoke strongly against the social media platform especially after Facebook’s security breach of 50 million users and the company’s data harvesting practices.
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