Twitch & Discord respond after Buffalo supermarket mass shooting Twitch\/DiscordTwitch and Discord have issued statements in response to the recent mass shooting in Buffalo, New York that was broadcasted on Twitch, with details of the shooting posted on Discord in the days leading up to it. On Saturday, May 14, 2022, tragedy struck in a Buffalo, New York supermarket when an 18-year-old gunman killed at least 10 people. The mass shooting was broadcasted live on Twitch, and it was quickly revealed that the gunman had a Discord server where he shared plans for the attack in the days leading up to it. In a report from Eurogamer, Twitch and Discord have issued statements regarding the incident. Twitch & Discord respond after Buffalo mass shooting According to Eurogamer, Twitch said that it identified and removed the live stream within two minutes after they found out about the incident. The site also detailed a comment the company made to The New York Times. \u201cTwitch has a zero-tolerance policy against violence of any kind and works swiftly to respond to all incidents,\u201d Twitch said. \u201cThe user has been indefinitely suspended from our service, and we are taking all appropriate action, including monitoring for any accounts rebroadcasting this content.\u201d Twitch and Discord have issued statements following the Buffalo mass shooting https:\/\/t.co\/Aal5FTWBIS \u2014 Eurogamer (@eurogamer) May 16, 2022 As the incident was planned out via a private Discord server, the company also provided a statement. Discord revealed that it is investigating posts made by the gunman, which allegedly include detailed plans for the shooting before it took place. They added: \u201cWe extend our deepest sympathies to the victims and their families, and we will do everything we can to assist law enforcement in the investigation.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time a mass shooting has been broadcasted on the Amazon-owned platform. On October 9, 2019, a gunman killed two people inside a German synagogue and multi-streamed it to Twitch and Facebook. We\u2019ll be sure to update you if any more information is released regarding this incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch & Discord respond after Buffalo supermarket mass shooting Twitch\/DiscordTwitch and Discord have issued statements in response to the recent mass shooting in Buffalo, New York that was broadcasted on Twitch, with details of the shooting posted on Discord in the days leading up to it. On Saturday, May 14, 2022, tragedy struck in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}