On 30 July 2007, the BBC programme Panorama broadcast a show on how street violence between children as young as 11 was being posted on websites including LiveLeak. This, among others, earned the site a mention from White House Press Secretary Tony Snow as the likely place to see updates or stories from active American soldiers. LiveLeak first came to prominence in 2007 following the filming and leaking of the execution of Saddam Hussein. History Cockpit video of a Hellfire missile being fired at targets in Afghanistan The URL was changed to redirect to ItemFix, another video sharing site. LiveLeak aimed to freely host real footage of politics, war, and many other world events and to encourage and foster a culture of citizen journalism. The site was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind the shock site which closed on the same day.
LiveLeak was a British video sharing website, headquartered in London. Various co-founders including Hayden Hewitt
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