WITNESS joins civil society organizations from around the world calling on Mark Zuckerberg to work with civil society to address dangerous content on Facebook, ensure that a thorough audit of Facebook India takes place, and place Ankhi Das on administrative leave while the audit is being conducted.
Next week, the Civil Liberties [LIBE] Committee of the European Parliament is set to vote on the proposed “Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online” that WITNESS and other civil society organizations have been strongly opposing for months.
Our Tech Advocacy Program Manager, Dia Kayyali, will speak at the “Content Moderation & Removal at Scale” conference, Feb. 5, 2019, in Brussels.
A proposed law encourages the use of opaque algorithms that could threaten content created by human rights defenders, alternative media, and journalists.
Kayyali joined experts in the technology, human rights, and policymaking worlds to urge Zuckerberg to develop a more ethical and principled company.
WITNESS joins 70 international organizations and individuals to call on Google to end Project Dragonfly, the censored search app for China.
We look forward to engaging in the PAI to address critical challenges around key focus areas of our Tech Advocacy work including misinformation and disinformation and privacy.
Our Senior Program Manager Priscila Neri talks to NBC News about how WhatsApp became linked to mob violence and fake news.
Our program director talks to NED about deepfakes threats and the role they play in the disinformation landscape.
Here’s what our program director and other human rights leaders had to say about what it takes to care for justice in the world.