Facebook Live Video of Shootings Presents Challenges

New York Times: Two real-time videos catapulted Facebook, in the span of 48 hours, into a spot as the prime forum for live events and breaking news. It is a position that the company has long jockeyed to be in as it seeks to keep its 1.65 billion members ever more engaged. Yet the brutal nature of the events that appeared on Facebook Live also put the company in a tricky situation. Facebook is confronting complexities with live videos that it may not have anticipated just a few months ago.