Featured videos often involve graphic content of fatal accidents or shootings. Although by 2016 Liveleak had

reduced its controversial content, the site frequently sparked up controversy up until around 2008, mostly due

to its graphic and political content.
LiveLeak is a video sharing website that lets users post and share videos. The site was founded on 31 October

2006, it aims to take reality footage, politics, war, and other world events and combine them with the power

of citizen journalism. The site is estimated to be the 957th most popular website in the world as of May 2017.

Hayden Hewitt of Manchester is the only public member of LiveLeak’s founding team.