After Stabbing His GrandMom To Death, This Man From West Bengal Went Live On Facebook

Jyotis - Jun 12, 2019

Despite a variety of efforts from Facebook itself and many other social media firms, they can’t still prevent users from creating and spreading the violent contents on the Internet. And this incident is such an example.

The rapidly growing development of social media like Facebook has turned it into the ideal medium where users can make friends, look for lovers, share information or follow their friends’ online activities. And unluckily, some of us are even live streaming violent and immoral content on these social networking platforms. Despite a variety of efforts from Facebook itself and many other social media firms, they can’t still prevent users from creating and spreading the kind of similar contents on the Internet.

man-killed-his-grandmom-live-fb — After stabbing his grandmother to death, the man still went live on Facebook.

Many may remember the brutal shooting in New Zealand a couple of months ago in which the homicide suspect Steve Stephens posted a live video recording the whole murder procedure on Facebook.

Now, in West Bengal, India, a similar incident has happened. This time, a man at 27 years old killed his grandmother in a cruel way.

The reports pointed out that he stabbed his relative to death and the most terrible thing came from his even going live on Facebook.

A police officer revealed,

The police officer stated,

When being asked about this incident, a psychologist suggested the investigators check whether the accused man was psychotic or highly addicted to drugs.

The two cases of Steve Stephens and Indranil Roy are not the only examples for the fact that users have used the live streaming service to spread the atrocities as well as immoral content on social media.

facebook-vs-violent-content — Facebook has had to change its policies towards the live feature to limit the spread of malicious content.

Until now, social networking companies haven’t yet given any really effective solution to deal with this kind of content. In many cases, videos have just been available for about two hours before being completely removed out of the social media sites like Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. However, the amount of time is enough for any user to save or repost the picture/footage many times.

As a result, Facebook has had to change its policies towards the live feature to limit the spread of malicious content like the New Zealand shooting videos.

The Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg posted in his blog saying that