YouTube said it will beef up security at offices all over the world, one day after a shooter opened fire in the company’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif.
“Our employees have been encouraged to take time off of work, or work from home and we are making sure wellness services are readily available,” the YouTube team said in a statement Wednesday evening. “We are also revisiting this incident in detail and will be increasing the security we have at all of our offices worldwide to make them more secure not only in the near term, but the long-term.”
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— Google Communications (@Google_Comms) April 4, 2018
YouTube has offices not only in the U.S., but also in Canada, Germany, India, Brazil, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Police identified Tuesday’s shooting suspect as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a 39-year-old woman from San Diego. She shot and wounded three people before taking her own life, police said.
San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said they believe the suspect was motivated because she was “upset” with the video-sharing company.
Aghdam had been critical of YouTube in the past. She claimed the platform “discriminated and filtered” her own YouTube content in a video from Jan. 2017.
