#7- Exploiting a News Story

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There was an article on foreignpolicy.com that mentions multiple dates when terrorists streamed their attacks. 

 Question: Why would terrorists stream their attacks? Wouldn't this obviously connect them to their crime?

 Answer: Terrorists do this for attention and clout. They obviously do not care about their connection to the terrorist attacks. If the terrorists did care, they would not have live-streamed their murderous acts. 


Foreignpolicy.com lists many dates of when the livestreams of terrorists attacks have happened. The first date that mentioned was March 15th, 2018. During this day, Brenton Tarrant live-streamed his mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. He recorded himself killing 51 people.

This started a trend that had never before been done. This trend of exploiting social media for clout/attention of terrorists attacks are increasing, and becoming more of a norm. The next date that will be mentioned was in April of 2018. A month after the attack from Tarrant, a 19-year-old kid killed 1 person at the synagogue in California. He also live-streamed this murder, but his camera went out, and the footage was not complete. Multiple months later in August, a person in Norwegian posted a terrorist attack in a mosque in Baerum. The next attack to be livestreamed was in October in Germany. During this time, a person posted their killings at a synagogue. This man posted and live-streamed all of his victims on twitch from a head-cam. On April 11th of the next year,  a man in texas live-streamed himself driving around attempting to attack police officers. 

 Far worse than a news outlet exploiting a story, these terrorists are exploiting social media for fame, clout, and attention. This is a despicable use of media and is absolutely disgusting. 


    "Publicizing attacks and otherwise exploiting social media is the new normal for terrorism. "


Because of this, Government agencies such as the FBI and the CIA have been monitoring any social media activity made by terrorists. Due to the large increase of activity on the internet, there will also be an increase of terrorists getting punished for their crimes. 

According to Reuters.com, Facebook plans to provide resources to stop live streaming of terrorist attacks. 

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