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Media See our most recent work on Deepfakes and Generative AI Learn more at WITNESS.org | Español | Français | Português | العربية Home About COVID19 PROJECTS Resources Ideas Donate Home About COVID19 PROJECTS Resources Ideas Donate The WITNESS Media Lab is dedicated to unleashing the potential of eyewitness video as a powerful tool to report, monitor, and advocate for human rights. This video is from a project documenting immigrant abuses,Eyes on IceWe believe that the next stage of human rights documentation and advocacy will be powered by videos created and shared by eyewitnesses. Our work addresses the challenges of finding, verifying, and contextualizing those videos. In collaboration with peers from the fields of advocacy, technology, and journalism, we develop solutions to ensure that footage taken by average citizens can serve as an effective tool for justice. The WITNESS Media Lab is a project of WITNESS and the Google News Initiative. RECENT PROJECTS Eyes on Internet Shutdowns A series of articles and resources highlighting community strategies for documenting human rights violations during internet shutdowns, and their role in achieving justice and accountability. Legal Video Advocacy To help reduce the massive U.S. prison population and to promote human dignity and growth over punishment and retribution, this project aims to support advocates, lawyers, and incarcerated individuals in using video to seek parole, clemency and sentencing mitigation. Ticks Or It Didn’t Happen WITNESS supports critical research into pros and cons of approaches to deepfakes and mis/disinformation mitigation that focus on tracking the authenticity and provenance of audiovisual media. How do we work together to detect AI-manipulated media? Synthesis Report: Expert meeting and knowledge exchange between i) leading researchers in media forensics and detection of deepfakes and other new forms of AI-based media manipulation and ii) leading experts in social newsgathering, UGC and OSINT verification and fact-checking. Prepare, Don’t Panic: Synthetic Media and Deepfakes This project focuses around the emerging and potential malicious uses of so-called deepfakes” and other forms of AI-generated synthetic media” and how we push back to defend evidence, the truth and freedom of expression. Deepfakes: Prepare Now (Perspectives From Brazil) Report and recommendations: WITNESS facilitates community-level discussion and national level convening to support inclusion of perspectives from Brazil in global discussion on deepfakes threats and solutions. Perpetrator Video in the Middle East and North Africa This project examines how human rights advocates and journalists can turn the proliferation of eyewitness and perpetrator video into more ethical and effective storytelling and documentation of human rights abuse in the MENA. EYES ON ICE: Documenting Immigrant Abuses This project examines the challenges and possibilities of using video to document encounters with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement(ICE) in the U.S for justice. Caught on Camera: Police Violence in the U.S. This project examines the impact of video in documenting police violence in the United States and its role in achieving justice and accountability. You’ll find articles, case studies and practical tips on documenting and sharing videos of police abuse The People’s Database for Police Accountability A set of tools and guidance from WITNESS and Berkeley Copwatch to support community-based police accountability groups in collecting, organizing, and storing documentation of police encounters. This allows for more effectively and quickly conducting investigations, coordinate justice campaigns, and challenge unjust laws, policies, and police practices. See all projects IDEAS 11 August | Uncategorized | jacobo | No comment Backgrounder: Deepfakes in 2022 0 12 May | ICE | WITNESS | No comment Storytelling Strategies for Immigrant Justice in the U.S. 0 04 February | ICE United States | palika | No comment We Have Rights Animated Series 0 ONLINE RESOURCES WITNESS Blog WITNESS Library OUR WORK Critical & Surge Response Video as Evidence WITNESS Media Lab Technology Advocacy Video Archiving CONNECT WITH US Facebook Twitter YouTube Media Lab on Twitter Instagram CONTACT US Contact | Press Kit | Financials Copyright © WITNESS.ORG. 80 Hanson Place, 5th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217 Voice: 718.783.2000 Data Use Policy Help WITNESS create more human rights change DONATE Join us by subscribing to our newsletter. SUBSCRIBE...