Social Media Firms Deleting Evidence of War Crimes, Human Rights Watch Says (Sept. 18, 2020)

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Social Media Firms Deleting Evidence of War Crimes, Human Rights Watch

Says (VOA, Sept. 18, 2020)  

LONDON - Social media companies are taking down videos and images that

could be vital in prosecuting serious crimes, including war crimes,

according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. 
In its investigation titled

“‘Video Unavailable’: Social Media Platforms Remove Evidence of War Crimes”,

Human Rights Watch says companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are

increasingly using Artificial Intelligence algorithms to remove material

deemed offensive or illegal.

Researchers fear vital evidence is being missed or destroyed.  

   ;  vital 중대한

  ; deemed offensive; 혐오적이라고 간주되는    

The report cites videos collated from social media by the investigative organization

 Bellingcat showing the Russian ‘Buk’ missile launcher, which prosecutors say

was used to fire the weapon that brought down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17

in 2014.

  ; cites videos 비디오를 인용했다

  ; collated from social media 소셜미디어에서 정리한 것인데,

  ; missile launcher  미사일 발사대

The evidence was later used by the Dutch-led multinational

Joint Investigation Team conducting the criminal investigation into

the shooting down of the jet, which killed 298 people.

Russia denies involvement.

“What we know from Bellingcat is that in the later stages of

the investigation, they went back to look at the sources,

some of the social media posts that they’d used to substantiate

their investigations, in order to provide that to judicial authorities

in the Netherlands.

And at that point the content had come down,” says Belkis Wille of

Human Rights Watch, who co-authored the report. 

  ; substantiate  증명-  

“What we started to notice in the last few years,

particularly since 2017, is that we would see a video of let’s say

soldiers executing someone, or an ISIS (Islamic State) propaganda video,

and if fifteen minutes or an hour later we went back to look at a video again,

it was suddenly gone,” Wille he said in an interview Wednesday.

  ; let’s say  예를 들면,

Governments are putting increasing pressure on internet companies to

remove offensive, illegal or dangerous material.

Social media firms pledged to do more to block extremist content

following the live-streaming on Facebook of a terror attack

in on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019,

which killed 51 people.

“Nowadays these algorithms are so effective that

they are taking down content the minute it gets posted.

So, no user actually gets to see that content before it comes down,”

Belkis Wille of Human Rights Watch says
there could be a solution.
“What we're calling for is the creation of
some kind of global mechanism,
sort of an archive or library,
where content that got taken down from
social media companies would be transferred to.
And then it would be up to this body to sort and
store this content and then to figure out
a system of granting access to people seeking accreditation to get access to that content
– not for them to replicate and post it online,
but actually to use it for these investigative purposes.”

  ; calling for  요청하는 것  

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