US Republican senators ask tech firms about content moderation in Israel-Hamas war
economictimes.indiatimes.comUS Senate panel's Republican lawmakers sent a letter on Friday to tech companies Meta Platforms, Google, TikTok and X, formerly called Twitter, seeking information on their content moderation policies in the Israel-Hamas war, the senators said.
The Republican lawmakers of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said they asked the companies «to commit to fully preserving a documentary history of Hamas's atrocities.»
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Gaza, a 45 km-long (25-mile) enclave home to 2.3 million people, has been ruled since 2006 by Hamas. Gaza has been cut off from much of the outside world for 16 years since Israel imposed a blockade.
«We believe it is imperative that we preserve a full documentary history of Hamas's atrocities,» the Republican lawmakers led by Senator Ted Cruz said.
«Ordinarily policies limiting the distribution of disturbing content might make sense, but videos and images uploaded by soldiers, law enforcement, citizens, journalists, and those with real time access to acts of terrorism need to be preserved to aid in prosecuting war crimes, intelligence gathering, media reporting, and the historical record.»
The senators said they requested a number of pieces
