Discord, Twitch, 4Chan and more to be investigated in wake of Buffalo terror attack
New York attorney general Letitia James has announced her office is launching investigations into various online platforms and social media companies, following the May 14 terror attack in Buffalo that claimed 10 lives and wounded three people. The suspect, a heavily-armed white supremacist, livestreamed the murders on Twitch and partly planned the attack on a private Discord server.
During the attack, Twitch became aware of the livestream and removed it within two minutes of it going live. «The user has been indefinitely suspended from our service, and we are taking all appropriate action, including monitoring for any accounts rebroadcasting this content,» Twitch said at the time. Discord said it is cooperating with law enforcement investigating the shooter's use of the platform, but would not comment further.
Shortly after the attack, New York governor Kathy Hochul demanded that social media platforms do more to prevent these streams from being shared. «There's a feeding frenzy on social media platforms where hate festers more hate, that has to stop,» Hochul said during a briefing. «These outlets must be more vigilant in monitoring social media content. And certainly the fact that this act of barbarism, this execution of innocent human beings, could be live streamed on social media platforms and not taken down within a second, says to me that there is a responsibility out there.
»We're going to continue to work on this and make sure that those who provide these platforms have a moral and ethical, and I hope to have a legal responsibility to ensure that such hate cannot populate these sites, because this is the result."
The NY attorney general's investigations will «look into the social media companies and other online
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