Week 26 - 'Facebook video gunman Steve Stephens kills himself after chase'

'Facebook video gunman Steve Stephens kills himself after chase'
http://news.sky.com/story/facebook-video-gunman-steve-stephens-kills-himself-after-chase-10842411

• man who filmed himself killing a 74-year-old man before putting the video on Facebook
• posted the video of the killing to Facebook, where it remained for more than two hours before the social network removed it
• In the footage Stephens pulls over in a car on a street in Cleveland as he says "find me somebody to kill, gonna kill this guy right here. He's an old dude"
• The shooting raised questions about the way Facebook moderates graphic content, with the social network promising to review how it handles violent videos after the incident
• peaking after the death of Stephens, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said his company would "keep doing all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening"

This story reveals the issues of Facebook live and the difficulty of removing graphic content on user generated social media platforms. The clear problem is the fact that this video was uploaded for 2 hours until it was removed and this highlights the ethical concerns of content and how videos are able to be streamed and shared globally in the matter of seconds.