On further reflection, we decided to remove it some hours ago.” The spokesperson also said: “In common with many other news organisations around the world, MailOnline carried for a time a very short excerpt from beginning of the Christchurch mosque gunman’s video that showed no violence or victims. This was an error and swiftly corrected.” A spokesperson said: “A link was briefly carried to the gunman’s ‘manifesto’. MailOnline also uploaded the alleged attacker’s full 74-page manifesto to its website, deleting the document after being accused of spreading terrorist material. Many traditional media sites including MailOnline, the Mirror and the Sun also hosted edited videos of the same footage, although MailOnline and the Mirror later admitted this was a mistake and removed the videos. Ryan Mac, a BuzzFeed technology reporter, has created a timeline of where he has seen the video, including it being shared from a verified Twitter account with 694,000 followers.One version of the video monitored by the Guardian was left live on Facebook for at least six hours, while others were available on YouTube for at least three.Several Australian media outlets broadcast some of the footage, as did other major newspapers around the world.People continue to report seeing the video, despite the sites acting pretty swiftly to remove the original and copies, and copies are still being uploaded to YouTube faster than it can remove them.The attacks were live-streamed on Facebook and, despite the original being taken down, were quickly replicated and shared widely on other platforms, including YouTube and Twitter.PewDiePie later said on Twitter he was "absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person" PewDiePie has been embroiled in a race row before, so some have speculated that the attacker knew that mentioning him would provoke a reaction online. Before opening fire he shouted "subscribe to PewDiePie", a reference to a meme about keeping YouTube star PewDiePie as the most-subscribed-to channel on the platform. The suspect also referenced a meme in the actual video.That document was, as Bellingcat analyst Robert Evans points out, filled with "huge amounts of content, most of it ironic, low-quality trolling" and memes, in order to distract and confuse people.The post included links to the suspect's Facebook page, where he stated he would be live-streaming and published a rambling and hate-filled document About 10 to 20 minutes before the attack in New Zealand, someone posted on the /pol/section of 8chan, a message board popular with the alt-right.
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