Social media giants Facebook, Twitter, Google faced scrutiny over extremist content on their platforms on Friday after video footage of mass shootings in New Zealand was live streamed and widely shared online.

This is a tragedy that doesn’t deserve a snappy lede, but it is one that needs to be highlighted because tech companies should be held to account. Earlier today, there was a horrendous mass mosque shooting in New Zealand that killed 49 people — and because th…

I am now sadly practiced at processing atrocities like the appalling shootings in New Zealand. This is a list of questions I always ask myself in order to make sense of the senseless.

I am now sadly practiced at processing atrocities like the appalling shootings in New Zealand. This is a list of questions I always ask myself in order to make sense of the senseless.

“Be there for them. Check in. Perhaps extend a kind gesture at your local mosque,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter following the New Zealand mosque attacks.

"I’m 66, I never thought in my life I’d live to see something like this," Jill Keats, who was present at one of the shootings in Christchurch on Friday, ...

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show a massacre at a mosque in New Zealand as it was taking place.

Australian PM Scott Morrison and UK’s Sajid Javid among those criticising Fraser Anning

A Christchurch worshipper who was among the first to be targeted by a gunman Friday is being hailed a hero online for sharing "peaceful" and "courageous" words — likely his last — while confronting his attacker.

The Christchurch massacre, which has left at least 49 people dead, has highlighted flaws in New Zealand's gun control laws.

Four people have been arrested and police aren't ruling out more suspects.

The self-proclaimed racist who attacked a New Zealand mosque opened fire with rifles covered in white-supremacist graffiti and listened to a song glorifying a Bosnian Serb war criminal.

Messages of condolence are coming in from Around the world.

"Amazing Race" host Phil Keoghan was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. Keoghan joins “CBS This Morning” from Matarangi to discuss the mosque attacks in Christchurch that killed at least 49 people on Friday.

In times of darkness, be a light.

The self-proclaimed racist who attacked a New Zealand mosque during Friday prayers in an assault that killed 49 people used rifles covered in white-supremacist graffiti and listened to a song glorifying a Bosnian Serb war criminal.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube said they removed the original videos, but hours later people reported finding versions on the platforms.

A gunman shot dead 49 people and wounded more than 40 at two New Zealand mosques, some as they were kneeling at prayer, livestreaming online some of the killings that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern condemned as terrorism.

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and Prince William have released a joint statement after the horrific shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which at least 49 people died

Canada's threat level remains unchanged after the shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that have left dozens dead and injured, says Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale.

28-year-old Australian posted rambling 74-page document that suggests fixation with violent uprising against Muslims

28-year-old Australian posted rambling 74-page document that suggests fixation with violent uprising against Muslims

Leaders around the world expressed disgust and sorrow at the killing of at least 49 people in New Zealand mosques on Friday, and some also expressed anger at what they described as the demonization that fueled such attacks.

A man in his late 20s has been charged with murder in connection with an unprecedented attack on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday, which left at least 49 people dead.

The self-proclaimed racist who attacked a New Zealand mosque conducting Friday prayers during an assault that killed 49 people opened fire with rifles covered in white-supremacist graffiti and...

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