Will Social Media Archives Ukraine War Footage Under American Government Directions?
It is stunning but true- social media is becoming a tool to chronologize events. The human atrocities that have been committed in Ukraine will now be preserved through war records assembled from social media sources.
Social media companies have therefore been asked to preserve
war footages, notes, clips and posts. This includes Meta, TikTok, Twitter and
YouTube that have received notices from American politicians asking them to
preserve content that could be used to prosecute war criminals.
America is not letting Russia get away with murder. War
crimes have been committed and there is no easy way to prove this but for
evidence to be gathered and crime proven. Letters are said to have been sent by
four senior Democrats who chair powerful committees in the House of
Representatives relating to oversight, foreign affairs and national security.
Not essentially legally binding, the pressure to take
Russia to task remains high on agenda. One of the letter states, that gathering
such information from social media giants would be of great assistance to “the
US government and international human rights and accountability monitors [who
will] investigate Russian war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other
atrocities in Ukraine.”
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