A police officer lays flowers on June 15, 2016, near the house in Magnanville where a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group killed a French policeman and his partner on the night of June 13. In Monday night's assault, 25-year-old Larossi Abballa, previously convicted for jihadism, killed a police officer and his partner, also a police employee, before streaming his claim for the murders live on Facebook. He stabbed 42-year-old police commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing outside his home at Magnanville, a Paris suburb northwest of the capital. AFP PHOTO / MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE
WASHINGTON: As more gruesome crimes and attacks show up on live online video, social media platforms are facing new challenges on preventing the spread of gruesome and horrific content.
The challenge was underscored in the deadly June 13 attack on a policeman and his wife in France in which the killer posted on Facebook a live 13-minute video of himself with the victim’s child in which he admitted the murders and urged fellow jihadists to carry out more bloodshed.
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