How efforts by independent investigators and NGOs to document human rights violations in war zones are hampered by proactive content removals by social networks
Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @tobiaschneider , @miriamelder , @meghara , @saliltripathi , and @buzzfeednews Tweets: Tobias Schneider / @tobiaschneider : Mass deletions without systematic and accessible backups should be seen as any other destruction of records. http://twitter.com/... Miriam Elder / @miriamelder : This is a great story by @meghara on the tension between removing terrorist content from FB/YouTube and war crimes prosecutors and researchers who rely on that stuff for evidence http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Megha Rajagopalan / @meghara : The histories of today's wars are being written on Facebook and YouTube. But what happens when the platforms take them down? My latest. http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Salil Tripathi / @saliltripathi : This raises critical questions about how we ‘write’ history. It goes beyond documentary evidence. What of deleted tweets and compromising material that may have been posted by public figures? Treating the Internet as the sole guardian of collective memory is a profound problem. http://twitter.com/... @buzzfeednews : The Libya conflict, which started in 2011, was the first major war that took place entirely during the social media era. Militants and civilians documented the conflict in real time. This has fundamentally shifted how war crimes are prosecuted. http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...