WITNESS facilitates community-level discussion and national level convening to support inclusion of perspectives from Brazil in global discussion on deepfakes threats and solutions.
A proposed law encourages the use of opaque algorithms that could threaten content created by human rights defenders, alternative media, and journalists.
We look forward to engaging in the PAI to address critical challenges around key focus areas of our Tech Advocacy work including misinformation and disinformation and privacy.
Gabriela Ivens will be working with our Tech+Advocacy team where she will be working on issues around the safe, ethical, and effective use of video in documenting human rights violations.
Our Senior Attorney and Program Manager Kelly Matheson will conduct a few sessions on how to use video for change, advocacy and evidence for human rights.
Vote for our panel on deepfakes and synthetic media, how they can be used maliciously, and how we can detect and stop them!
In the article, our program director spoke about the reality of deep fakes and how WITNESS is working with companies to inform them of the potential of deep fakes to influence people and on dealing with synthetic media.
Our U.S. Program Manager Jackie Zammuto spoke to the publication about how the intersection of policing and technology can be problematic.
WITNESS along with 30 leading technologists, machine learning specialists, academic researchers, human rights researchers, and journalists came together to discuss ways to mitigate threats involving deepfakes and AI.
Our Tech+Advocacy Program Manager along with our partners at the Syrian Archive spoke about YouTube’s takedowns of important Syrian war crimes evidence and the complexity of the Google algorithm.
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