Will Social Media Archives Ukraine War Footage Under American Government Directions?

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 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.”

While these companies are independent entities, there seems to be immense political pressure on them to tow-the-line. Currently, there are some 10,000 war crimes under investigation. A senior British diplomat has recorded evidence of ‘credible allegations’ of sexual violence against children by Russian troops, alongside other violations of UN Security Council rules on young people in wartime. 

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