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YouTube, Meta, Twitch silent on live-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 refusing to say whether they would allow the US government to live stream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. The question has surfaced after reports that the government may seek to broadcast the execution online, and the platforms have given no comment on their policies for such an event.

Why now: It would be an unprecedented case of a government asking major platforms to carry a live execution, raising unresolved content policy questions.

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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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