I believe they're referencing Facebook's role in the Myanmar coup: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55929654
(reference for "600" as the death toll: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56703416)
Think of cloud accounts like any other form of backup. Two is one, one is none.
Hard drives die, cloud services come and go. No backup is forever.
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If Google markets a product in a specific way I don't think it's unreasonable to criticize Google when they fail to live up to that marketing.
At a previous job, we had a forensic image of a compromised laptop stored in G-Drive. Google blocked access to it because of the malware on the disk. No "no, really, this is important and I need to download it, I acknowledge the risks" button, nothing. Good thing the person who uploaded it hadn't deleted the original copy yet.