When YouTube Removes Violent Videos, It Impedes Justice

Among the half-million hours of video uploaded to YouTube on March 20, 2017, was a disturbing 18-second clip showing a gunman executing three people — bound and facing a wall — on a dusty street, purportedly in Benghazi, Libya. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Scott Edwards (@sxedwards) is a senior adviser for Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Team …

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