Facebook has been forced to restate its live video rules after footage of a black man being shot and killed by police officers during a routine traffic stop in the US was viewed by millions—before being removed and returned under mysterious circumstances.
The company insists it will only remove a video of someone’s death if it has been “used to mock the victim or celebrate the shooting.”
Philando Castile’s death at the hands of a traffic police officer while he reached for his driver’s licence in Minnesota on July 7 shocked the world, after his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds had the presence of mind to film the immediate aftermath and upload it to Facebook.
