Recommended Summer Reading List for Social Media Managers
From my experience as a social media manager, I’ve learned that social media for individuals and small organizations boils down to two things: trust and how we communicate with our community. While I...
View ArticleBuilding Bridges Between Activists and the Tech and Media Communities
Internet Week New York 2014 (IWNY) brought together leaders from the New York tech scene to discuss the impact of technology on culture, business and entertainment. The final day of the conference...
View ArticleHunger Games Meme + Call for Social Justice = Empowerment?
by Kat Connelly Recognize this symbol from “The Hunger Games”? Thai protesters are seen using the infamous “Hunger Games” three finger gesture to show their silent opposition to the recent military...
View Article#Instagood Tips for Nonprofits
by Kat Connelly An example from @witness_org of a post last week. Instagram is the internet version of yearbooking, scrapbooking, photo/video blogging… basically your nonprofit’s gateway to visual...
View Article#AIDS2014 Live Twitter Recap
Friday, July 25th, was the last day for our #AIDS2014 Live Twitter Recap, but return anytime to remember some of the highlights from the 2014 International AIDS Conference. Our Senior Program Manager...
View ArticleWhat We’re Reading: July 25 Edition
By Seth Herschkowitz Every week we publish a list of our favorite articles on human rights, video, and advocacy that have been shared internally by WITNESS staff. This week features the promotion of...
View Article#Instagood Tips for Nonprofits Part 2
By Kat Connelly Last week, I shared some ideas and tips on managing your nonprofit’s Instagram account. I made two suggestions to use the video feature and consider hosting an Instagram “takeover.” In...
View ArticleImages of Horror: Whose Roles and What Responsibilities?
In the last month, many people in the US and worldwide have been exposed to videos showing grotesque acts of violence, notably the killings of two journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and...
View ArticleProtect human rights defenders’ identities with the updated YouTube blurring...
Last month, the police arrested seven Egyptians after photos and videos of audience members at a MAshrou’ Leila concert waving a rainbow flag went viral on social media. They were charged with...
View ArticleThe Hunt for Digital Evidence of the Rohingya Genocide
In documenting historical records of destruction or grievous danger to a peoples over time, digital trails are a human rights crusader’s best–sometimes most accurate–source of evidence. And yet at the...
View ArticleLast Month in Video: Cameras got smarter. Will we?
With contributions from Priscila Neri. From Florida to Pakistan, people are capturing human rights abuses and life-changing events, and the subsequent video footage is powerful. That’s why our Last...
View ArticleDeadly, deadlier: Rio favela under fire by joint Police-Army forces
Last week Rio de Janeiro military police joined lethal forces with the Brazilian Army for a counter-narcotics operation in the favela of Maré in the northern part of Rio. The joint forces committed...
View ArticleSuicide or Escape? Fact Checking Reporting on Migrant Abuse in MENA
This post is part of the WITNESS Media Lab’s new project, “Perpetrator Video in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)”. This project examines how human rights advocates and journalists can turn the...
View ArticleCyber-Violence against the Marginalised in Sri Lanka
This is the second post in a series examining gender-based online violence in Sri Lanka, featuring WITNESS ally Groundviews—a civic media organisation based in Sri Lanka. Read part 1 here....
View ArticleWITNESS tells world leaders- don’t delete opportunities for justice
24 September 2019 Today, the New Zealand government announced an update on the Christchurch Call to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. The Christchurch Call emerged in the...
View ArticleThe Pros and Cons of Facebook’s New Deepfakes Policy
Yesterday Facebook released its policy on enforcing against manipulated media, detailing how the company would respond to deepfakes, and to a lesser extent shallowfakes. On Wednesday 8 January 2020 the...
View ArticleHuman rights defenders are not terrorists, and their content is not propaganda
Counter-terrorism is not a field that is known for its respect of human rights. The word terrorism, though it does not have any commonly agreed upon legal or societal definition, has often led to the...
View ArticleTwitter Released A Draft Policy on Synthetic Media. Here’s What Stood Out to...
— January 28, 2020 Earlier this month, Facebook released its policy on manipulated media. As a civil society organization with expert knowledge on the subject, WITNESS was asked to give input on the...
View ArticleWITNESS joins 75 experts calling for platforms to preserve data about...
The importance of accurate information during this pandemic is clear. But knowledge about the novel coronavirus is rapidly evolving. This is also an unprecedented opportunity to study how online...
View ArticleWITNESS joins 14 organizations to urge GIFCT to respect human rights
WITNESS and 14 other organizations have joined together to send a public letter to the newly appointed Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) Executive Director Nicholas Rasmussen to...
View ArticleArchivists’ Victory over Overbroad Copyright Claim
A joint statement from Human Rights Watch, Mnemonic, and WITNESS, with lead authoring by Deborah Brown, Senior Researcher and Advocate on Digital Rights, and Gabriela Ivens, Head of Open Source...
View ArticleTruth, lies and social media accountability in 2021
In 2021, critical issues at the intersection of social media, accountability, and human rights are finally at the center of global public discussion. It took the attempted insurrection at the US...
View ArticleEyes on Internet Shutdowns
This is the first of a series of posts to mark the official launch of WITNESS’ global campaign on internet shutdowns, that highlights community strategies for documenting human rights abuses during a...
View ArticleHow To Batch Export Videos from Telegram
Telegram is a key platform for sharing audiovisual media that document human rights abuses – whether it is captured by officials, bystanders, journalists, activists, or perpetrators and their...
View Article#KenyaDecides2022: How Disinformation Fanned Political Anxiety
Kenya’s recently concluded election has been lauded as transparent, credible and peaceful. However, in the closely contested presidential race between former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and outgoing...
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