![]() ![]() It linked out to an 87-page manifesto filled with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim ideas, and directed users to a Facebook page that hosted the live stream. Before it took place, a post on the anonymous message board 8chan – a particularly lawless forum that often features racist and extremist posts – seemed to preview the horror. ![]() In fact, the entire attack seemed orchestrated for the social media age. In a sickening angle to an already horrific story, it was live-streamed online. It seems that the video was filmed by a perpetrator of the mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, in which dozens of people were killed and injured. ![]() The video, which has not been verified by CNN, appears to show an unseen attacker opening fire on worshippers in a mosque, as if they were targets in a game. But it soon becomes terrifyingly obvious that what is being filmed here is not a work of fiction. The footage is grainy and has a video-game aesthetic. ![]()
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