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We fight to make sure that video and technology work for, and not against, human rights ✊🏽🤳🏾 Learn more: witness.org

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WITNESS @witnessorg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
WITNESS is thrilled + honored to announce we have been named as a beneficiary of the @proton.me Lifetime Charity Fundraiser 💜 🛡️ wit.to/proton
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WITNESS Named Beneficiary of Proton Lifetime Charity Fundraiser - WITNESS
WITNESS is thrilled and honored to announce we have been named as a beneficiary of the Proton Lifetime Charity Fundraiser organized by the Proton Foundation, the governing non-profit organization behi...
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WITNESS @witnessorg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The first global #AI summit in the Global Majority is currently underway in New Delhi. Here’s what we need to get right 👇🏽 ‼️ wit.to/india-ai-summit
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Trust in What We See: What the AI Impact Summit Must Get Right on Audiovisual Truth - WITNESS
A welcome shift, an incomplete frame Global leaders are convening in New Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the first in this series to be hosted by a Global Majority country. WITNESS will be ...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If we continue to treat contending with NCII and AI-enabled sexual abuse as secondary to innovation, we will keep rediscovering the same harm- only louder, faster, and harder to undo, write WITNESS’ Bruna Santos and shirin anlen.
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The Grok Disaster Isn't An Anomaly. It Follows Warnings That Were Ignored. | TechPolicy.Press
AI developers and regulators must treat nonconsensual sexualized imagery as a design-level risk, write Bruna Martins dos Santos and shirin anlen.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Queen Elizabeth stopped by police. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shoplifting. 'Leaked conversations’ from elections. A wave of deceptive media circulating during conflicts. 2025 saw AI-generated media cross a threshold, write Zuzanna Wojciak and shirin anlen from WITNESS. What lessons can we learn?
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Five Things 2025 Taught Us About AI Deception and Detection | TechPolicy.Press
Zuzanna Wojciak and shirin anlen from WITNESS offer five lessons that show where AI deception is headed and what detection must confront next.
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Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
+1 @maddow.bsky.social: @witnessorg.bsky.social and others' expert, clear advice on how to film ICE and what to do next (more resources on our site on filming, archiving, accountability)
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WITNESS @witnessorg.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🚨 Are you paying attention to how #AI is shaping your rights? At WITNESS, we’ve been working tirelessly with lawmakers + tech companies to ensure #HumanRights considerations are built into the regulations, laws, + policies shaping our digital future 🌐 wit.to/AI-policy
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Policy submissions and advisory opinions – Technology Threats Opportunities
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WITNESS @witnessorg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Part 3 of our #FilmingImmigrationEnforcement series covers considerations + critical steps for AFTER you stop recording📱 🫱🏽‍🫲🏿 Do NOT share without consent from those impacted 💻 Follow the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies, 2 locations, 1 w/ a trusted person 👩🏽‍💻 NEVER edit the original file 📚 wit.to/immigrant-justice
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Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"We are not built to watch murders on our phones…then casually scroll to a job update." @baratunde began Then...how to witness ICE/CBP violence, discern real from fake, and build archives of accountability despite AI. It's our work @witnessorg.bsky.social www.lifewithmachines.media/p/seeing-is-...
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Seeing Is No Longer Believing
ICE, deepfakes, and how to know what's real with Sam Gregory
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Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
From Minneapolis to Tehran, witnesses are filming. State lies and AI fakes are trying to bury truth. @witnessorg.bsky.social makes evidence matter - in streets with documenters, in halls of power shaping tech so truth can be trusted. It's what we do. And we need your help. tinyurl.com/5b7kw85f
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𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩) Jon… | Sam Gregory
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩) Jon Stewart says it well. A smartphone camera is more than just technology. In the hands...
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WITNESS @witnessorg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Video is playing a critical role in exposing immigration enforcement’s unlawful tactics and challenging “official” narratives in the #US. In response, communities are organizing, protesting, and documenting these abuses 🤳🏾 🦋 wit.to/immigrant-justice
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Immigrant Justice - Library
Resources for immigrant justice in the U.S., including Know Your Rights guidance, tips on how to film immigration enforcement.
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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · 19/01/2026
— @TRANSFER on artist-led data cooperatives — Lighthouse on perpetual storage — @witnessorg.bsky.social on community infrastructure in the Amazon
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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web @ffdweb.org · 19/01/2026
DWeb Digest Issue 2: "The Architecture of Resilience" is live. With @pbkauf.bsky.social as guest editor. 8 essays on building decentralized infrastructure that lasts. Read it: ffdweb.org/digest/issue-2
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The Architecture of Resilience | FFDW
Issue 2 of the DWeb Digest - Architecture of Resilience
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ваят @denbib.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
“As generative AI makes fabrication easier and detection harder, OSINT must evolve its methods, invest in contextual expertise, and adopt transparent workflows,” say @witnessorg.bsky.social team members. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-unde...
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AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt
As generative AI makes fabrication easier and detection harder, experts must evolve its methods, invest in contextual expertise, and adopt transparent workflows.
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Jochen Spangenberg @jospang.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#OSINT in times of #AI - Georgia Edwards, Zuzanna Wojciak & shirin anlen of @witnessorg.bsky.social advise OSINT investigators to - double down on transparency - cultivate fluency in AI itself and that - investigations are led by contextually grounded practitioners. Via @reutersinstitute.bsky.social
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AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt
As generative AI makes fabrication easier and detection harder, experts must evolve its methods, invest in contextual expertise, and adopt transparent workflows.
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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
We've just published this great essay by Georgia Edwards, Zuzanna Wojciak and shirin anlen from @witnessorg.bsky.social on how GenAI is threatening OSINT journalism's core assumptions and how to address that threat A piece worth your precious time reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-unde...
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AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt
As generative AI makes fabrication easier and detection harder, experts must evolve its methods, invest in contextual expertise, and adopt transparent workflows.
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Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Great @themaybe.org podcast with the inimitable @alixdunn.com diving into AI, video, trust and human rights. Loved deep diving into how what we've learned at @witnessorg.bsky.social over decades of video activism drives our work to defend visual truth in age of Sora www.themaybe.org/podcast/stra...
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The Maybe
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rainey reitman @reitman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Huge congrats to @witnessorg.bsky.social and @samgregory.bsky.social, who worked on this issue for years and brought in the concerns of journalists, civil society, technologists and more. So proud to support them.
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rainey reitman @reitman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
That means Pixel 10 photos (not yet videos) are automatically marked as camera-captured and also indicate when they're edited - with or without AI. And that data is readable in other services - including key Google ones - that can spot the C2PA data...
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rainey reitman @reitman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I love it when nonprofit advocates secure wins in tech policy battles. Today, the new Google Pixel 10 is implementing the C2PA standard natively in the smartphone camera chip.... www.linkedin.com/posts/samgre...
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Google Pixel 10 integrates C2PA standard for authentic photos | Sam Gregory posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Normally I don't get so excited by a new phone launch, but this one is different.... The new Google Pixel 10 is implementing the #C2PA standard natively in the smartphone camera chip to show both 'ca...
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 26/09/2025
💫 NEW! The global nonprofit @witnessorg.bsky.social seeks to address one of the biggest data gaps in the digital verification landscape: the dependence on tools-based methods that lack local knowledge. Learn more:
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Rewriting the Rules of Digital Verification: How African Investigative Journalists Are Building New Data Models
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Julia S @juliacsmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
And this @witnessorg.bsky.social resource on Filming Immigration Enforcement is recommended as well: library.witness.org/product/film...
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Filming Immigration Enforcement in the U.S. - Library
Tipsheet on how to use video to ethically combat abuses committed by immigration enforcement, including safety, social media, & verification tips.
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Julia S @juliacsmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
And another is Eyes on ICE series from @witnessorg.bsky.social --> blog.witness.org/2017/11/new-...
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New Series Launch! Eyes on ICE: Documenting Immigration Abuses
New series examines role of video in exposing immigration abuses and advocating for immigrant communities against agressive ICE tactics.
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