Ep. 148: What Facebook Live Didn't Expect to Stream

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🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On a special edition of 'The Ringer Tech Pod,’ Molly McHugh and staff writers Alyssa Bereznak, Kate Knibbs, and Victor Luckerson discuss the use of Facebook Live to stream the tragic events in Minnesota, Louisiana, and Texas last week, and the implications that real-time violence has for the future of the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special edition of The Ringer Tech Podcast.
0:11.2	I'm Molly McEw and I'm joined today by Ringer's staff writer, Alyssa Breznak.
0:15.9	Hi.
0:16.9	And Kate Nibbs.
0:17.9	Hey.
0:18.9	And Victor Lukerson.
0:19.9	Hey Molly.
0:20.9	Today we're going to be talking about Facebook Live and more specifically some of the graphic
0:24.2	videos that were streamed and uploaded using Facebook's video service last week.
0:29.4	Following the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five Dallas Police officers
0:34.0	during a shootout.
0:35.4	A quick warning.
0:36.9	Some of the content we're going to be discussing and clips we're going to play may be upsetting.
0:41.3	On July 5th in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Alton Sterling was approached by two police officers
0:45.4	who were responding to a call about a disturbance.
0:47.6	He was shot and killed by the officer and several bystanders captured the incident
0:51.2	on video and uploaded to Facebook and Twitter.
0:54.2	The next day, so if it's over in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, Philando Castile was driving
0:58.1	with his girlfriend and her daughter when he was put over her for a broken tail light.
1:01.6	When it's him to reach for his license in his back pocket, he was shot by the officer
1:05.0	and later bled to death.
1:06.6	His girlfriend calmly streamed the entire incident on Facebook Live.
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