Facebook CEO vows to help prevent repeat of Cleveland murder posting

April 18, 2017 at 17:07

Eventually, he said, people would use augmented reality on eyewear, although he did not give any details about possible Facebook hardware.

By David Ingram

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pledged on Tuesday that his company would do all it could to prevent postings of incidents such as Sunday's fatal shooting in Cleveland, which was visible on the social media site for two hours.

Speaking at Facebook's annual conference for software developers, Zuckerberg took time out of a keynote address about an augmented reality project to express sympathy to the friends and family of the shooting victim, Robert Godwin Sr.

The suspected shooter, Steve Stephens, fatally shot himself after a brief pursuit by Pennsylvania State Police officers on Tuesday, ending a two-day nationwide manhunt, police said.

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