'Social media service providers remove evidence of war crimes'





Artificial intelligence is used by social media service providers to delete videos with terrible graphics. Without recording, such erasure may also erase videos that could aid prosecutors.


According to Meta and YouTube, their goal is to strike a balance between safeguarding consumers from harmful content and the need to be eyewitnesses.


According to Alan Rusbridger of Meta's monitoring committee, the industry has been "very careful" regarding material reduction.


According to this service provider, it is immune from retaining horrible scenes in the public interest. 



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Harmful and illegal content can be removed to an extent by Artificial Intelligence, AI. But when it comes to cropping violent videos of war, masin does not have the ability to understand the depth of human rights violations.


'Urgent action needs to be taken'


Human rights organizations believe social media service providers must act quickly to avoid such material from being lost.

"We can understand that they taught their machines to remove them as soon as they see something awkward or traumatic," 

Meta's monitoring committee is an independent body established by its owner, Mark Zuckerberg, that functions similarly to the Supreme Court for firms that operate Facebook and Instagram.

"Another question for them is how do we develop machines to make logical decisions regardless of whether that person or AI is," says former Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger.


No one can disagree that technology companies have the authority to remove content, according to Beth van Sock, the United States' ambassador for global criminal justice.

"I believe the main concern is the unexpected loss of such information."


How content is removed






In Ukraine, former travel journalist Ihor Zakarenko encountered such a dilemma.


He began recording attacks on civilian civilians after Russia initiated a war on Ukraine.


The BBC first encountered him in a Kiev neighborhood a year ago, when people leaving Russian-controlled territories were shot dead, including children and women.


He intended to broadcast such a video online, disputing the Kremlin's comments and alerting the rest of the world about what is going on in Russia. However, when he shared the films on Facebook and Instagram, they were quickly removed.


"Russian citizens claimed they were deceptive and that their forces did not harm civilians." "They claimed to be fighting only Ukrainian forces," Ihor explained.


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We shared images taken by Ihor from various Instagram and YouTube accounts. Within a minute, Instagram had removed three of the four videos. YouTube was the first to create all three videos, which were watched by adults. However, YouTube pulled all of the videos 10 minutes later.

We tried one more. However, the videos were never uploaded again. A request to re-place the tapes was also denied due to the fact that they contained evidence of war crimes.


Documents on social media

The habit of documenting crimes committed during the war on social media has begun. Such evidence can be utilized in the prosecution of war crimes.


However, the BBC spoke to people who have been affected by the violent violence and who have witnessed major social media platforms erase such content.


According to YouTube and Meta, deleted battle scenes are typically allowed to be uploaded in the public interest, but only persons over the age of 18 should keep them in their accounts for signing in.


However, our trial with Ihor's movies yielded a different result.


According to Meta, it will "respond only to legitimate legal requests from the world's law enforcement agencies" and will "continue to identify additional ways to support international accountability processes." These actions, he claims, should fall within his legal and privacy responsibility.


YouTube also stated that, while it is exempted from maintaining horrible footage in the public interest, it is not for records.


"Human rights organizations, campaigners, human rights defenders, researchers, civil journalists, and others documenting human rights violations and other potential crimes should also identify best practices to protect their content," the report stated.

Problem when proof is needed


He recalls how the explosion filled the rooms in dust and smoke.


When he rushed to the market after hearing people pleading for aid, he saw bloodied hands, feet, and bodies.


Local television crews captured the action. The videos were put on YouTube and Facebook, but they were quickly removed.

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Syrian journalists told  that the airstrike destroyed original recordings of videos they had made during the conflict's devastation.

When Imad sought for asylum in the European Union a year later, he was requested to show proof that he was present at the incident.

I was certain that my drugstore had also been videotaped. However, when I began exploring online, I discovered that the films had been removed.

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