A horrific shooting at a Christchurch mosque was livestreamed for 17 minutes by the gunman. “So social media companies – which have played a role in this, albeit not through their intent – have something to answer for and need to act further to prevent this.” New Zealand mosque shooting Christchurch terrorist rants ‘let’s get party started’ in chilling video before killing 40 worshippers. Australian police have identified the shooter as Brenton Tarrant - a white, 28-year-old Australian-born man. The extremist - dressed in military fatigues fired. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said she wants to discuss the issue of live streaming with Facebook. The distressing footage of the Christchurch shootings were not only disseminated on social media. Sky New Zealand pulled Sky News Australia off its network on Saturday because the latter was broadcasting video clips from the shooter’s Facebook livestream.
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