It is reported that as early as December, the suspect used a private server on this popular chat service to describe his intention to attack. According to Bloomberg, he later shared a link to the discord log describing his attack plan and white supremacy. The report said that the suspect mentioned the terrorists who attacked Christchurch mosque in New Zealand more than 30 times in the application, and used racist slogans and extremist terms.
A spokesman for discord told Bloomberg: "we took action immediately after we knew about it and deleted the server in accordance with our policy against violent extremism." The company did not immediately respond to the verge's request for more information about its control policies.
The company [wrote] in 2021( https://discord.com/blog/how-trust-safety-addresses-violent-extremism-on-discord ) , discord's management team "divides work" between responding to information reported by users and "actively discovering and deleting" servers and users engaged in "high hazard activities". This management approach was created after discord learned that white supremacists used their app to organize a violent "unite the right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
"Since 2017, the trust and security team has spent a lot of time trying to ensure that another event like Charlottesville is not planned on our platform," the company wrote last year.
According to the report of PC gamer that year, in 2019, discord mainly relied on user reports to adjust its platform and did not actively monitor private or public servers. The report said that the company's regulatory team does have the ability to read information from private servers, but discord usually only does so when users report information.
Buffalo police said Saturday's attack was being investigated as a hate crime. CNN reported that the suspect identified as Payton s. Gendron told the authorities that his target was the black community; Eleven of those shot were black.
It is said that the suspect also used the discord plan to broadcast the attack live. The video of the attack was broadcast live on twitter, which said it stopped broadcasting "less than two minutes after the violence began". Even so, some videos are still circulating online as major platforms try to crack down on newly uploaded horror scenes.