It has become popular with the global 'alt-right' as it avoids content restrictions on social media platforms like YouTube by relying on user donations rather than advertising.īitChute has hosted content from prominent conspiracy theorists who have been banned from YouTube, including US vlogger David Seaman, who promoted conspiracies about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. One of them, BitChute, is a video-hosting service which enables peer-to-peer sharing. Two video links found by AFP had been viewed more than 90,000 times, according to the sites' visitor counters. Twitch said it was viewed live by just five users and a recording was seen by 2,200 people before it was flagged and removed.īut the full video was still available Thursday on multiple sites promoting violent and sexual content. The assailant's 35-minute video was originally livestreamed on Twitch, an Amazon-owned, gaming-focused streaming platform. The assault in city of Halle, which left two people dead Wednesday, took place as Jews marked the holy day of Yom Kippur, with the gunman streaming the attack live online.
Roughly 24 hours after the attack, video and links to an anti-Semitic 'manifesto' published a week earlier by the gunman were also still available online using a simple keyword search on popular anonymous online forum 4chan.
