In the wake of the deadly riots at the Capitol last week, Senator Mark Warner on Facebook and other giants on social media is urging to preserve ‘digital evidence’ of the chaotic scenes that engulfed the building.
“After Wednesday’s uprising on our country’s Capitol, I call on telecommunications companies and social media to preserve digital evidence of the Capitol riot,” the Virginia Democrat tweeted Saturday.
In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Warner stated that “the American Capitol is now a crime scene.”
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“If you have not already done so, I request that Facebook work to preserve all postings, communications, videos and other media, metadata, cloud backup and subscriber information immediately, whether currently on your platform or in any backup or archive state, across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, possibly accompanied by Wednesday’s uprising in the US capital, ‘wrote Warner, a Virginia Democrat.
“We are continuing our ongoing, proactive outreach to law enforcement and have worked to respond quickly to valid legal requests,” a Facebook spokesman told Fox News on Monday. “We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement to protect against immediate threats to public safety.”
Images of pro-Trump rioters storming the Capitol building have sent shock waves around the world. The violence killed five people, including a Capitol police officer, and a high-tech FBI manhunt for suspects involved in the riot.
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Facebook is also in the spotlight over its decision to block President Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely following his reaction to the riot in Capitol.
In a Facebook post on Thursday, Zuckerberg wrote that “the shocking events of the past 24 hours clearly show that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to bring about the peaceful and legal transfer of power to his elected successor, Joe Pray, to undermine. “
“We believe the risks of allowing the president to use our service during this period are simply too great,” he added. “Therefore, we are extending the block we posted on his Facebook and Instagram account indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.”
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Fox News’ Stephanie Pagones and Brooke Singman contributed to this article.
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