they think it s a miracle cure. an alternative to them to the vaccine. there s no science that actually backs this up, but that s what they believe. then in these spaces they are saying, hey, doctor, why aren t you giving my family member iver neglecten on their death bed and need help. doctors largely won t prescribe this in the icu. they ve cooked up ideas how to get people out of the hospital to treat them at home with youtube-based science basically. number one way to do this, put this person into hospice care. any way they can get them home is good enough for them and go home and treat them with iver neglecten. we re learning that isn t working by itself and trying increasingly more dangerous thing they re learning on facebook and youtube. do you have a sense whether folks spreading this conspiracy theory are sort of your quote/unquote typical anti-vaxxer? i don t know really how to put that.
whether there might be bad actors spreading these messages? reporter: absolutely bad actors. some of the new alternative therapies they re bringing up were used early in the pandemic by anti-vaxxers, like long-term anti-vaxxers, pre-pandemic anti-vaxxers. for example, they are telling people, shocking, they re telling people to neb beaux lies hydrogen dioxide. a technique pushed by one of the big anti-vaxxers, disinformation dozen talked about by the white house a few weeks ago. pushed last year. all of this stuff is sort of coming back up now. saying to gargle iodine as well. using medical terminology saying creating an alternative protocol to vaccines. why are these conversations still happening on, for example, facebook? why isn t facebook shutting them down? it s complicated. facebook specifically banned any
charges. they brought three other people in after the immediate aftermath. they no longer believe they have links to the attack. all of their focus on the one suspect. at the same time, we are told security remains high in christchurch. people are told to be individual lent. we know security is high around mosques. police say they need to be certain there is no remaining threat here. ana? alexandra field, thank you for the latest on the investigation. with the prime suspect in custody, much of the focus is now on the victims and their families. one survivor posted a message on facebook to his friends and loved ones. hey, guys, how are you? thank you for text messages. i will not be able to answer any. i am really tired. okay, guys? please pray for myself, for me
catch it. that s what i was going to asked they say they are policing themselves and cracking down on this regulation. they didn t catch a 17-minute killing spree. why? that s right. you would think, based on the content of the video, including gunshots and gory imagery wouldn t be algorithms of what s going on. in this case, the algorithms didn t. the new zealand police contacted facebook and said you have to look at this video and take it down. this might have been relatively quick by the standards of tech companies. youtube and other sites leave it up for dates. facebook had a track record about this as well. you can argue it by facebook standards. here on television, on live tv, if something ugly is happening, it s on a seven second delay. why isn t facebook incorporating a system to detect this kind of
has. the internet is supercharged. i would argue as a child of the internet, there s a thousand great things the internet provided to our world. yeah, there are a hundred or 200 ugly things. in the wake of the massacre, who is google, facebook and these companies going to do to provide it. that is the tension inside these silicon valley giants. the more mainstream social media sites like facebook and twitter. there are dark, unmonitored places on the internet like 8 chan that might have played a part, no ruleses, no restrictions. what can you tell us about this? when you read the manifesto, there are a lot of references to online memes, online ideas. dark jokes. the kinds of things that spread in these online communities,