WITNESS

WITNESS is a global nonprofit based in New York City with nearly three decades of experience training activists and citizens around the world to use video and technology to expose human rights abuses and seek redress. It works with individuals and citizen groups in more than 100 countries, and it has built trusted networks with grassroots communities, journalists, lawyers, and movement organizations to conduct its work. In the United States, WITNESS operates an expanding program to train citizen groups to use video and participatory media to document and address civil rights violations, such as police brutality and violence against immigrants and LGBTQ communities. Since its inception, WITNESS has been a leader in developing new technology tools to advance human and civil rights, and it has led efforts to protect the rights and safety of citizen groups and human rights activists on the social web. This grant provides general operating support for WITNESS to continue training citizen groups in the United States and globally, deepen connections between domestic and global citizen groups working on similar issues, and step up its efforts to hold the large technology platforms accountable for their role in facilitating human rights abuses and undermining democracy. Its goal is to equip citizens, activists and others in the United States and around the globe to use video and the social web to demand redress for civil and human rights violations, spark policy debates, and challenge unfair or inaccurate media accounts or official narratives.

WITNESS is a global nonprofit that trains and supports activists and citizens around the world to use video and technology to expose human rights abuses and seek social change. The award will support the launch of a new report focused on threats posed by synthetic media and deepfakes and related outreach around the report.

WITNESS is a global nonprofit based in New York City with 26 years of experience training and supporting activists and citizens around the world to use video and technology to expose human rights abuses and seek social change. It works with individuals and citizen groups in more than 100 countries, and has built trusted networks with grassroots communities, journalists, lawyers, and technology platforms. In the United States, WITNESS operates an expanding program to train citizen groups to use video and participatory media to document and address civil rights violations, such as police brutality and violence against immigrants and LGBTQ communities. This grant provides general operating support for WITNESS to continue its work globally, with a special emphasis on growing its presence in the United States. Its goal is to equip citizens, activists and others in the United States and around the globe to use video and social media to demand redress for civil and human rights violations, spark policy debates, and challenge unfair or inaccurate media accounts or official narratives.

X-Grant to support an expert meeting to explore pragmatic solutions to prevent and defend against fabricated video and audio generated by artificial intelligence technologies.

WITNESS is a nonprofit based in New York City that trains and supports activists and citizens around the world to use video and social media to expose human rights abuses and seek social change. In the United States WITNESS is launching efforts to equip organizations and individuals to use video and social media better to address a range of contemporary civil rights issues, including police violence, racial justice, and LGBTQ rights. This grant provides support for WITNESS to strengthen the capacity of key actors working on these issue areas, including leading service organizations, at-risk populations, emerging leaders and activists within movements, and ordinary citizens to use video more effectively and safely to collect evidence, spark policy debates, and challenge mainstream media accounts or official narratives.