"Global social networking giants Facebook, Twitter and Youtube all failed to adequately respond when a white supremacist gunman murdered 51 people in New Zealand, live streaming the event on the internet. The failure of the platforms to adequately respond again raises questions about why technology giants which boast they can discern the intent of one buyer out of a billion in a millisecond, are unable to intervene more rapidly when their platforms are used to propagate violent events and hate speech. Quoted in Bloomberg, Hany Farid, a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information and a senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project told the news service, "Once content has been determined to be illegal, extremist or a violation of their terms of service, there is absolutely no reason why, within a relatively short period of time, this content can’t be eliminated automatically at the point of upload. We’ve had the technology to do this for years.'"