

It was very peaceful, calm and quiet, as it is when the sermon starts, you could hear a pin drop. It’s ridiculous.”Īnother witness gave a more lengthy and graphic description of what happened to The Guardian:

I don’t understand how anyone could do this to these people, to anyone. There were three in the hallway, at the door leading into the mosque, and people inside the mosque. We had to jump the wall to escape.”Īnother witness said to The Washington Post, “I saw dead people everywhere.

New Zealand's state-owned Lotto told Reuters it had already pulled advertising from social media because "the tone didn't feel right in the aftermath of these events." Burger King, ASB Bank and the telecommunications company Spark are also considering ending their ads, according to the New Zealand Herald.To CNN, a witness who was in the mosque said, “There were more than 200 people inside.

"ANZA and the Comms Council encourage all advertisers to recognize they have choice where their advertising dollars are spent," the joint statement said. Facebook is one of several social media platforms scrambling to crack down on uploads of the video, which remained online for hours after the massacre. The Association of New Zealand Advertisers and the Commercial Communications Council put out a joint statement Monday asking businesses to think twice about giving Facebook more ad dollars. Some Kiwi companies have already said they might end ads on Facebook. Two business associations in New Zealand say companies should stop advertising on Facebook after an anti-Islam terrorist used the platform to livestream his massacre at a mosque in Christchurch. Facebook struggles to police content on its platform 07:02
