24 Jul EYES ON ICE: USING VIDEO TO EXPOSE IMMIGRATION ABUSES
News and Events, Participate |You’ll walk away knowing how to safely, ethically and effectively film ICE for evidence and advocacy.
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23 Jul WITNESS’ immigrants’ rights work featured in New York Magazine
News and Events, Press |In the article and accompanying video, we share practical tips for those who may be most vulnerable to these increased ICE raids and arrests, as well as practical considerations for any of us who may be witnesses to these events.
02 Jul WITNESS LEADS CONVENING ON PROACTIVE SOLUTIONS TO MAL-USES OF DEEPFAKES AND OTHER AI-GENERATED SYNTHETIC MEDIA
News and Events | WITNESSWITNESS 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.
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.
19 Jun WITNESS COMMEMORATES WORLD REFUGEE DAY
News and Events |On World Refugee Day, we at WITNESS recognize refugees’ strength, valor, and persistence in their fight for their communities, for human rights and for justice.
18 Jun WITNESS and El Grito Launch “Profiling the Police”
News and Events |Our project investigates how video and open source data gathered by local groups can help corroborate incidents of abuse and help communities tell their own stories.
06 Jun WITNESS named top growing nonprofit
News and Events, Press |The annual list from Classy, a fundraising software, celebrates growth-minded organizations looking to their scale their impact.
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