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Can Facebook be sued for live-streaming suicides?

In general, you can sue for emotional distress when you witness the death of a family member.

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Shontavia Johnson | The Conversation
In January, two different suicides were streamed using Facebook Live, a service that allows Facebook users to create and broadcast real-time videos to their followers. At the end of the month, a third was streamed live using a different service and is still publicly available on Facebook.
On January 22, a 14-year-old girl hanged herself in front of about 1,000 viewers. It took nearly an hour for her to prepare, and followers watched her body hang in the bathroom where she took her life for another hour.
The very next day, a 33-year-old father of six

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