The Christchurch gunman provided a playbook for future killings by white supremacists.
Today, March 15, marks the fifth anniversary when an Australian gunman opened fire on worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The shooter livestreamed the killings on Facebook for 17 minutes before the video was taken down by the platform. Fifty-one Muslims died from the shootings. In livestreaming the murders, the gunman, then 28 years old, demonstrated a disturbing understanding of how such content is engineered to go viral. And go viral it did.
In October 2019, a 27-year-old livestreamed his rampage at a Jewish community center and synagogue in Halle, Germany, on the livestreaming app Twitch for 30 minutes. In May 2022, an 18 year old, livestreamed his killings in Buffalo, on Twitch for two minutes before it was taken down. The Buffalo shooter credited the Christchurch killer for changing his thinking.
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