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Why the Cleveland Killing Won't Change Facebook

While the company may want to fix this problem, it’s still highly likely we’ll see more tragedies in our news feeds.

When Steve Stephens allegedly killed Robert Godwin in cold blood on Easter Sunday and put videos of the shooting on Facebook, there wasn't much Stephens' friends or followers could do to prevent it from appearing in their news feeds.

This basic fact—and the two hours from the time the videos were first posted until they were taken down—seems to have rattled Facebook, which until this week had taken a more detached approach to atrocities posted on the platform. This time, just 24 hours after the Easter shooting, Facebook released a detailed timeline of the event and a promise to review the reporting systems that led to the delay.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the controversy Tuesday at Facebook's developer conference, saying that the company "will keep doing all we can" to prevent similar situations in the future.

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