The Bush-Clinton Covid Commission
Wall Street JournalAPR 2023
Social media content is integral to war crimes investigations in Ukraine and elsewhere. Tech companies should work with human rights organizations to develop a lawful mechanism for preserving and providing access to such content. Although companies have been receptive to calls for digital lockers, they have not yet acted to create these types of secure storage spaces.
The task of archiving open-source material cannot be the responsibility of tech companies; platforms are not archives. Human rights organizations and others documenting human rights abuses should observe best practices for securing and preserving their content.