Hours after the start of a deadly shooting rampage in Memphis this week, police finally got a tip that would prompt a citywide lockdown and eventually lead to an arrest: The gunman was on Facebook Live threatening to hurt people.
The violence across Tennessee’s second-largest city that left four dead and three injured is the latest example of why advocates have been pushing tech companies since the 2019 mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, to draft policies against livestreamed attacks and quickly scrub the videos from their platforms.