Livestreamed massacre means it's time to shut down Facebook Live

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Livestreamed massacre means it's time to shut down Facebook Live

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Facebook can be really fun - or really scary. (Photo: Sebastiaan ter Burg, Wikicommons)

is assistant professor of communications (social media) & magazine at Syracuse University in New York

When word broke that the massacre in New Zealand was livestreamed on Facebook, I immediately thought of Robert Godwin Sr. In 2017, Godwin was murdered