Facebook to curb livestreaming

Facebook said on Wednesday that it would tighten access to its livestreaming feature as New Zealand’s Premier Jacinda Ardern and French leader Emmanuel Macron prepared to launch the “Christchurch Call” initiative to tackle the spread of extremism online.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has been under intense pressure since March, when a white supremacist gunman used Facebook Live to stream his rampage at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, which left 51 people dead.

The California-based platform said it would ban Facebook Live users who shared extremist content and seek to reinforce its own internal controls to stop the spread of offensive videos.