New Zealand privacy commissioner John Edwards criticized Facebook and called its managers "morally bankrupt liars".
"You can not trust Facebook, they are morally bankrupt, morally ill liars who allow genocide, and easy to undermine external institutions of democracy," Edwards said in a tweet on Sunday night.
In particular, Edwards points to how Facebook manages its platform and its contribution to events such as the Christchurch Massacre, broadcast live on its social platform.
"Facebook allows suicide, rape and murder, and continues to embrace and disseminate the video of the mosque attack, and allow advertisers to target Jewish haters and other hateful market segments and refuse to take responsibility for any content or harm," he said.
The tweet was later deleted, and Edwards made it clear in another tweet that he did it "because of the toxicity and misleading traffic that he caused."
Edwards' comments came in response to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's interview with ABC News, in which he said the company was working to improve the capabilities of its algorithms to monitor the live broadcast of terrorist events following the crime of Christchurch.
It took about 30 minutes to monitor the live broadcast of the mosque massacre in mid-March. She said she had removed 1.5 million videos of the massacre a day after the terrorist attack.
Edwards condemned Zuckerberg's comments as "deceitful" because "he can not tell us - or he will not tell us - the number of suicides, the number of murders and the number of sexual attacks that have been broadcast live" on the Facebook platform.