Facebook Refused to Take Down a Live-Streamed Suicide. Now It's All Over TikTok

A video of a Mississippi man taking his own life — which was originally live-streamed on Facebook — has gone viral on TikTok with children as young as 13 being exposed to the shocking footage.TikTok has said it is proactively working to block the spread of the footage and ban those who upload it, but users are finding workarounds to continue to share the video.The footage was originally broadcast on Facebook Live on August 31, when Ronnie McNutt, 33, an Army veteran, took his own life. Facebook initially refused to remove the video, saying it did not breach the company’s own Community Standards.AdvertisementMcNutt, who served in Iraq, and was suffering from PTSD and had recent relationship troubles, according to his friend Josh Steen.Steen, who recorded a podcast with McNutt, told Heavy that someone contacted him on the evening of August 31 to say his friend had begun a live stream and had accidentally fired a gun.Steen tuned in and saw that McNutt was drunk and rambling. He immediatel...