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.
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.