Controversial Videos Released in Nashville School Shooting

YouTube has decided to keep the graphic police body camera video of the Nashville school shooting online, despite its policy against violent content. The company stated that the video is in the public interest and can educate people about the incident. However, the video has been age-restricted and comes with a warning interstitial. YouTube is also monitoring its platform for videos, livestreams, and comments that glorify violence. Other social media platforms, such as Facebook, have presented the video in a similarly restricted way. Videos of mass shootings have been a tricky problem for tech platforms, which have banned the reposting of videos created by shooters themselves.