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New Zealand PM to discuss live-streaming with Facebook

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said she will be holding discussions with Facebook after it emerged that the suspect in the mosque shootings had apparently live-streamed the attack.

Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, allegedly used a helmet-mounted camera to broadcast 17 minutes of live video of the rampage at the al Noor mosque in Christchurch.

The footage was broadcast live on Facebook, and a “manifesto” denouncing immigrants as “invaders” was also posted online via links to related social media accounts.

Ms Ardern said her office was one of more then 30 recipients of the emailed manifesto just nine minutes before guns were fired, but it did not include location or specific details.

Facebook said on Twitter that “police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the live-stream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video”.

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