In response to the James Foley video, Hewitt posted that LiveLeak's policy had been updated to ban all beheading footage produced by ISIS. When it was reported on by US News & World Report, YouTube and Facebook deleted all related footage and implemented bans, demand increased for LiveLeak's footage as they currently allowed this. On 19 August 2014 a video depicting the beheading of US journalist James Foley was posted by Islamic State terrorists on YouTube and other sites. On 24 March 2014, LiveLeak and Ruptly announced a content partnership. However the video was soon removed again over a copyright claim. The re-post date was 30 March 2008 after arrangements for Hewitt's family and safety had been improved. Fitna was taken down for 48 hours as personal threats against Hewitt, the only public representative of the site, peaked. LiveLeak was again in the spotlight in March 2008, when it was hosting the anti- Quran film Fitna made by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. When Panorama queried the "extremely violent videos" that were posted to LiveLeak's website, co-founder Hayden Hewitt refused to take them all down, stating: "Look, all this is happening, this is real life, and this is going on, and we're going to have to show it." On 30 July 2007, the BBC program 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 soldiers. LiveLeak first came to prominence in 2007 following the filming and leaking of the execution of Saddam Hussein. Cockpit video of a Hellfire missile being fired at targets in Afghanistan
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