The original live video of last week's Christchurch attacks was viewed 4,000 times before it was removed by Facebook from their platform, says the company.
On Friday, a gunman live-streamed for 17 minutes the attack on two mosques that killed 50 people.
Fewer than 200 people had watched it live and the first user report of the video had come 12 minutes after it had ended, BBC cited Facebook’s statement on the New Zealand tragedy.
But by then a copy had been placed on alt-right file-sharing site 8chan. Once alerted to the video, Facebook removed the original and hashed it - essentially made a digital fingerprint - meaning that material that was visibly similar to the original could be automatically detected and removed.
And within 24 hours, it had blocked 1.2 million copies at the point of upload and deleted another 300,000. However, copies that had been edited or recorded from a screen had proved harder to spot, the report reads.
"We continue to work around the clock to prevent this content from appearing on our site, using a combination of technology and people," wrote Facebook vice-president Chris Sonderby in an update posted on the platform.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said social networks were "the publisher not just the postman".
Australia's leader, Scott Morrison, expressed concern over the "unrestricted role" of internet technologies in terrorist attacks.
In a letter to Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, who also chairs the G20, he asked for the issue to be discussed at the upcoming meeting of the G20.
"It is unacceptable to treat the internet as an ungoverned space," he wrote.
Mr Morrison said the aim was to "agree on co-ordinated action to afford greater protection from terrorist violence".
"It is imperative that the global community works together to ensure that technology firms meet their moral obligation to protect the communities which they serve and from which they profit."
UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid also called on social media firms to take action to stop extremism on their channels.
