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YouTube, Meta, Twitch silent on streaming US execution

Original: YouTube, Meta, and Twitch won’t say if they’ll allow the US government to live stream an execution

YouTube, Meta, and Twitch are declining to say whether they would allow the US government to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. The platforms have not responded to questions about their policies, leaving unclear how a government-requested broadcast of an execution would be handled under their rules on violent content.

Why now: It raises unresolved questions about how major platforms would handle an unprecedented government request to broadcast an execution.

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• YouTube, Meta, and Twitch won’t say if they’ll allow the US government to live stream an execution · The Verge

  YouTube, Twitch, and Meta aren’t saying whether they’ll allow the US government to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan on their platforms.

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