![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These include making firearms videos age-restricted, banning videos about body armor, and “tactical live-fire instructions on how to inflict the most damage” but more importantly, just more rigorous enforcement of the rules they already have in place. “Additionally, we’ve removed hundreds of videos in relation to this hateful attack, including content glorifying the perpetrator and re-uploads of his manifesto.”Įverytown, which has been sounding the alarm about these sorts of videos being easily accessible online, recommends that YouTube make several moves. “Following the hateful attack in Buffalo, our Trust and Safety teams comprehensively reviewed the suspect’s Discord chat logs and removed 3 videos for linking to websites that violate our Community Guidelines,” they told VICE News. A YouTube spokesperson told VICE News that they’re “committed to enforcing our firearms policy.” The spokesperson added they weren’t provided with the Everytown report so couldn’t comment on the videos included in their non-exhaustive review. To see just how accessible these videos are to the general public, the researchers at Everytown decided to do a “review of YouTube for content that would appear to violate its own Community Guidelines with respect to the construction, modification, or sale of weapons.” They report they were able to easily find "over 200 videos readily accessible on YouTube that garnered, collectively, over 40 million views.”Įverytown says despite the videos being clearly in violation of one, if not more, of YouTube’s content moderation guidelines and not even attempting to sidestep the rules, they’re all still available online. ![]() (VICE News was also on the list, but Memetica called that an "notable outlier" as the shooter wrote that he watched VICE News to understand people who don't think like him.) They found that the shooter consumed YouTube videos from firearms creators who offered information about AR-15-style rifles, tactical advice on shooting people, pro-Second Amendment videos, and gun modification. The Everytown report was published alongside one from Memetica, a research group specializing in digital investigations, which analyzed the shooter’s media and internet diet. “He also viewed YouTube videos showing people 'how to win a gunfight,' perhaps in anticipation of being confronted by security or law enforcement personnel how to set up a plate carrier, the same military-style body armor he wore to carry out his attack and how to illegally modify a fixed-magazine AR-15 to accept detachable magazines, allowing him to reload faster and use much more ammunition in carrying out his attack,” said Wagner. His solution was to watch a YouTuber he was a fan of and “train more, I guess.” He then linked to a video of the man instructing the viewer how to shoot through bulletproof glass. “Maybe it's better to aim for the security guard's head instead of body? Problem is the target would be WAY smaller.” Bullet will penetrate with some deformation but still have enough energy to penetrate flesh and such,” he wrote. “The glass at Tops is most likely not safety glass, so it should behave like a front windshield, I think. In a particularly chilling passage from the document, the alleged gunman discussed how best to kill a security guard who might be behind glass at the grocery store. ![]()
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