The Australian,New Zealand and British governments have now called on the social media giants to do more to stop terrorist content from being shared online and are questioning the checks and balances on livestreamed videos specifically. This comes amid intensifying criticism in the US where presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren haspledged to break up companies like Facebook,Google and Amazon if elected.
Both the federal government and the Labor opposition are now demanding the tech giants do more to stop the spread of terrorist ideology and content.
On Sunday,Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged social media companies to ensure their platforms could not be used by terrorists to share these videos,warning that once they"get out there"it was difficult to stop them spreading.
"Some real discussions have to be had about how these capabilities can continue to be offered,"Mr Morrison said.
He said social media companies had been cooperating with authorities but had been limited"on the technology side".
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said in a press conference,livestreamed on Facebook,that social media companies had an"obligation to better monitor and prevent hate speech".
"Their whole business model is to tell their customers[advertisers] that they know everything about their social media users. Well,if that's your business model,fair enough,but you can't go missing and not know what they're saying when it comes to hate speech,"Mr Shorten said.