"Social media has completely transformed the way human rights investigations happen," said Yvonne McDermott Rees, a professor who specializes in international criminal law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law at Swansea University.
Black and white footage, filmed by Allied troops as they liberated Nazi concentration camps, was used as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945.Srebrenica massacre "Today, with the prevalence of information posted to social media … it's really finding the signal through the noise." Online content has also been used as evidence in a limited number of cases at the International Criminal Court. But the conflict in Ukraine may be social media's greatest legal test in a war crimes case, according to McDermott Rees.Experts warn, however, that the sheer volume of social media content will create new challenges for those trying to make a legal case, and could even slow down the investigative process.
More on Ukrainians torturing and killing POWs:
This is NYT confirming Ukranian atrocities in Bucha:
This is a good analysis of what happened in Bucha:
When they learn finally this is not a presumption and this is not a movie.
There is massive evidence of war crimes committed by America, Saudi Arabia and Israel on SM but those seem to acceptable. What Russia is doing is very wrong but this is a double standard our media feeds us. JulianAssange_ is in prison for exposing the truth why isn't that news?
But if social media don’t censor and delete that evidence then people might realize that it was NATO trained Nazis who did it
Final moments of the now famous cyclist of Bucha, Ukraine before being fired upon by Russian force via YouTube