Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called the terror attacks of that Friday "one of New Zealand's darkest days." Islam's holy day was turned into the nation's most trying moment, and the hallowed halls of two mosques converted into killing rooms by a white supremacist terrorist who live-streamed the first seventeen minutes of the massacre on social media.

SEED: The live-streaming of the attack raises angles about social media platforms' complicity in amplifying terrorist violence and the policy implications for content moderation.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 884