U.S. Officials Ask Social Media to Make Record of Russian Atrocities

Four Democratic congressional representatives sent letters Thursday to the heads of the biggest social media companies asking them to create an archive of content coming out of Ukraine that can document Russian war crimes.

NBC reported that all of them received letters asking them to stop their automated processes of censoring graphic content and instead create systems that archive content which may be later accessed by investigators of Russian atrocities.

If the content is authentic, it could provide the U.S. government and international human rights investigators with a trove of evidence that would help to substantiate allegations of war crimes and other atrocities committed by Russian forces against the people of Ukraine.

Writers wrote a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook's parent company Meta, about past events that used social media to prosecute international war criminals. According to The New York Times, the International Criminal Court prosecuted a Syrian commander based on Facebook videos showing him executing 10 blindfolded prisoners. The issue of companies taking down content that local journalists were using to record protests and attacks on civilians in Syria has been reported before.

New York reps Carolyn Maloney and Gregory Meeks, as well as Massachusetts reps Stephen Lynch and William Keating all signed their names to the letters. The congress people are in charge of oversight and foreign affairs committees.

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