'We challenge Facebook and other platform owners to immediately take steps to effectively moderate hate content before another tragedy can be streamed online.'
'ANZA and the Comms Council encourage all advertisers to recognize they have choice where their advertising dollars are spent,' the joint statement said. Facebook is one of several social media platforms scrambling to crack down on uploads of the video, which remained online for hours after the massacre. The Association of New Zealand Advertisers and the Commercial Communications Council put out a joint statement Monday asking businesses to think twice about giving Facebook more ad dollars. Some Kiwi companies have already said they might end ads on Facebook. Two business associations in New Zealand say companies should stop advertising on Facebook after an anti-Islam terrorist used the platform to livestream his massacre at a mosque in Christchurch.
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