India, March 18 -- Malaysian airline company AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes has announced to quit Facebook amid New Zealand's Christchurch shooting where in an Australian terrorist live streamed the video of the mass murder on the social media platform.

Fernandes, who had 670,000 followers, announced to quit Facebook in a series of tweets.

'Facebook needs to clean up after videos of the New Zealand's Christchurch shooting were uploaded to the platform. The amount of hate that goes on in social media sometimes outweighs the good. Facebook could have done more to stop some of this,' Fernandes said in a series of tweets.

Facebook said it has removed over 1.5 million videos that were uploaded of the attack within 24 hours after the mass shooti...