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The perpetrator livestreamed part of the attack on the gaming platform Twitch using a camera mounted to his helmet.

: Major platforms like Meta (Facebook) and X (formerly Twitter) used "hashing"—digital fingerprints of the video—to automatically identify and block copies, but users often found ways to bypass these filters. Legal and Judicial Outcomes

The 2022 Buffalo shooting was a racially motivated mass shooting that occurred on May 14, 2022, at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Ten Black people were killed and three others were injured by an 18-year-old white gunman, Payton Gendron . The Attack and Uncensored Livestream

: Despite the quick removal, users recorded the footage and re-uploaded it to other platforms. One copy on the site Streamable was viewed over 3 million times before being removed.

: Twitch officials stated the livestream was taken down within two minutes of the violence beginning.

The perpetrator has faced significant legal consequences in both state and federal courts: