Chicago officials call for Facebook live shut down

Chicago officials are calling for a 30 day shut down of Facebook Live to help remove disturbing crime videos.

On April 21, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin and Chicago activist Father Michael Pfleger all stood in front of Facebook’s Chicago offices asking the social media giant to create a mechanism that would allow for instant removal of disturbing and offensive content.

“The moratorium is … an opportunity for tech companies, elected officials, law enforcement, community based organizations and civil rights advocates and others,” Jackson said.

“We have asked him to put an emergency button, a 911-type button to get videos to the front of the line to make sure they don’t stay up for several hours,” Boykin said.

The request comes  in the wake of 74-year-old Robert Goodwin Snr’s death at the hands of Steve Stephens who uploaded the shooting onto Facebook  Live.


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