13 Aug Cast Your Vote for WITNESS at SXSW 2019!
News and Events, Tech and Advocacy | WITNESSVote for our panel on deepfakes and synthetic media, how they can be used maliciously, and how we can detect and stop them!
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09 Aug WITNESS featured in Harvard Business Review
News and Events, Press, Tech and Advocacy | WITNESSIn 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.
28 Jun WITNESS FEATURED IN WIRED UK
News and Events, Press, Tech and Advocacy |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.
20 Jun WITNESS MEDIA LAB ANNOUNCES 2018 GOOGLE NEWS LAB FELLOW
News and Events, Tech and Advocacy |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.
05 Jun WITNESS FEATURED BY THE THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
News and Events, Press, Tech and Advocacy |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.
04 Jun CANCELED: Android users, help us test out a new app!
News and Events, Participate, Tech and Advocacy |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
03 Apr Delete Facebook? Not just yet.
News and Events, Tech and Advocacy | WITNESSIt’s time for Facebook to be more transparent, to provide more due process, and give users more control.
20 Mar Indigenous Voices: Using Video for Advocacy & Evidence
News and Events, Participate, Tech and Advocacy | WITNESSJoin us and the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples on Wednesday, April 11, for a webinar on using video for advocacy.
16 Feb WITNESS and Dropbox Foundation Join Hands for Human Rights
News and Events, Press, Tech and Advocacy | WITNESSThe Dropbox Foundation is the latest partner to sign on to supporting and investing in WITNESS’ ambitious plan to scale our impact and enable millions of more people to use video and technology to protect and defend human rights.
21 Jun MEU Project Awarded Flex Fund 2017 Grant
News and Events, Success Stories, Tech and Advocacy | DalilaWITNESS is named a Flex Fund 2017 grantee supported by Skoll Foundation, Ford Foundation and BRITDOC for the Mobil-Eyes Us project.
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