We strongly believe that filming for human rights and posting it online must not be criminalized.
We joined other leading human rights organizations to ask Google how the censorship plan in China upholds international human rights.
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 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.
Erin McAweeney will be conducting a 10-week project involving network analysis of manipulated visual content and context targeting immigrants and activists which will culminate into a report for WITNESS partners and a publication on computational propaganda.
Our Tech+Advocacy Program Manager Dia Kayyali spoke to Nick Glicher, director of TrustLaw at the Thomson Reuters Foundation about data privacy and its importance to human rights.
Join us on June 6 at 8 p.m. ET to help us test out Mobil-Eyes-Us, an app that connects frontline human rights defenders with distant supporters in real time
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