Andy Parker, father of the reporter killed on-air, Alison Parker, has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Facebook on Tuesday.
Gatekeepers News reports that Andy demands that the FTC takes action against Facebook for failing to take down the online footage of how his 24-year-old daughter was shot to death.
Alison, TV news reporter, was killed alongside a cameraman Adam Ward by a former co-worker while reporting for Roanoke, Virginia’s WDBJ-TV in August 2015.
Footage of the shooting, some of which were taken by the gunman, resurfaces on Facebook and Instagram despite assurances from top executives that it will be removed, according to a complaint being filed by Andy and attorneys with the Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic.
“The reality is that Facebook and Instagram put the onus on victims and their families to do the policing of graphic content — requiring them to relive their worst moments over and over to curb the proliferation of these videos,” says the complaint.
The complaint noted that the media giant is engaging in deceptive trade practices by violating its own terms of service and misrepresenting the safety of the platform and how hard it is for users to get harmful content removed.
The Father of the slain reporter previously worked with the Georgetown law clinic to file a similar FTC complaint against Google and its YouTube service.
The FTC doesn’t typically reveal whether or not it has decided to probe a complaint.
