Chicago: A 28-year-old man, Antonio Perkins, was shot dead
and killed during a live streaming of Facebook video, a feature recently added
by the world-famous social media platform, on Friday. Antonio Perkins was shot
in his head and neck during the video shooting. As he was taken to a nearby
city hospital, he was announced brought dead.
With this death and killing of Perkins, questions regarding
the safety notes have aroused worldwide. Perkins’ death took place just a day
after a double-homicide in France happened and the killer took to Facebook Live
in order to encourage more violence.
Another incident at Rio, raping a 16-year-old girl by more
than 30 men last month was also uploaded on YouTube, a prominent misuse of the
tools of technological advancements.
With these incidences under spotlight, it highlights the
immense challenges the social media companies, such as Facebook Inc, Twitter
Inc and Google's YouTube face ‘as they push live video streaming to hundreds of
millions of people,’ however, with a different cause. Facebook Live feature was
introduced by the social media site recently where one can broadcast a video of
real time. Users will be able to stream those videos from their smartphone.
The video screening Perkins, showed that he is standing infront
of a group of people where suddenly someone fired him. The phone started to
tremble and then showed the blood stains on the grass.
The Facebook authority said that the video is still in the
site, but with a warning message. a spokesperson from the social media site
said that posting a video does not violate the company policy, but they will
remove it if the video ‘celebrates or glorifies violence.’
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