War photographer and correspondent Paul Conry, who was born in Liverpool, has made a heartfelt appeal to the people to stop sharing the video of his comrade, American journalist James Foley, being murdered.
Footage recently released by the Islamic State, a terrorist organization in the Middle East, shows Foley being beheaded by a masked militant speaking with a British accent.
The group claimed that Foley was killed in retaliation for the U.S. air strikes in the region.
Conry, who had worked alongside his good friend Foley in other areas of conflict and recently survived being bombed in Syria, said that spreading the gruesome video was doing the Islamic State’s work for the group.
“What happened was stage-managed by people who are very, very media aware, and they know too well that nothing can be banned on the Internet,” Conry said.
“They want it to go viral; they want as many people in the world to look at it. So in many ways by sharing [the video] and propagating, we fall into their hands,” he added.
Thousands of people, including celebrities and other journalists, have taken to social media to campaign for people to give the Islamic State less exposure.
YouTube and Twitter have begun removing all traces of the video from their websites, and the British government has issued a warning that viewing the video may constitute a terrorist offense.
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