Article 1KQGR Dallas, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile: should Facebook show violent videos?

Dallas, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile: should Facebook show violent videos?

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Moira Weigel in San Francisco
from Technology | The Guardian on (#1KQGR)

Facebook's live streaming video allows people to broadcast life - and death - for the world to see, raising a new and complex set of ethical questions

Three days in America. Three mobile phone videos depicting violent deaths.

The killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and then a bloody shootout in Dallas, join a growing canon of brutal imagery either instantly broadcast or rapidly distributed on Facebook.

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