Yet again online social media Facebook witnessed a horrific incident of a father dropping his 11-month old child before committing suicide on Facebook Live. This incident has added an extra string of disturbing incidents that has been plaguing the social media website “Facebook”.
In the last few years Facebook users have witnessed many such incidents. Some of them also include suicide, torture and sexual assault that have reached millions on the live-streaming service, raising questions about Facebook's ability to monitor violence on its platform reported Hindustan Times.
The video clips showed the father tie a noose around his daughter’s neck and drop her from a rooftop, according to the website. The child could be heard crying briefly before he retrieved her tiny body reported Reuters.
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However, Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy has asked Facebook to remove the video from the website but, the incident underscores other brutal crimes, violence and self-inflicted pain that have played out on Facebook and other social media platforms.
On April 16, this year Facebook users witnessed live video of the fatal shooting of a man in Cleveland. According to Hindustan Times, the video was visible for two long hours and had created a huge agitation among the people.
This year alone, a 12-year-old girl in Georgia hanged herself from a tree while broadcasting on the video streaming app Live.me. Naika Venant, 14, hanged herself on Facebook in Florida reported Reuters.
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In 2015, a shooter killed a TV journalist and her cameraman during a live television broadcast before posting his own video of the killing on Facebook. Three men were shot last year in Norfolk while one was broadcasting live on the website. And more recently, four people in Chicago were accused of torturing and taunting an 18-year-old disabled man while broadcasting the assault on Facebook Live reported The Washington Post.
Days later after Naika's death in Florida this year, a 33-year-old aspiring actor in California, who had been arrested and posted bond after accusations of domestic violence, shot himself in the head as people watched on Facebook Live. Similar scenes have played out abroad, according to news reports.
