- IFRC World Disasters Report 2026: Truth, Trust and Humanitarian Action in an Age of Harmful Information The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has launched the World Disasters Report 2026, which frames harmful information as a de facto humanitarian crisis — one that can undermine access to aid, erode trust, and destabilize social cohesion, ultimately affecting safety and principled humanitarian action. The report also includes contributions from […]
- Defending Democracy: Human Rights Implications of Generative AI and Deepfakes in the 2025 Philippine Elections This blog is a report from a workshop held in the Philippines on 12th April 2025, which explored the human rights risks posed by generative AI and deepfakes in the lead-up to the 2025 elections. Participants examined how these technologies are weaponized for disinformation and political repression and shared strategies to defend truth and democracy. […]
- EU AI Act: Ensuring Rights, Disclosure and Meaningful Protections in the General Purpose AI Code of Practice WITNESS expresses concern regarding the changes in the EU AI Act’s third draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. These modifications impact transparency, risk assessments and copyright, and undermine fundamental rights.
- AI, Disinformation and the Battle for Truth: How Ghana’s 2024 elections exposed the new age of political deception Disinformation and deepfakes in Ghana’s elections exposed a new age of political deception, WITNESS responded by connecting local journalists with our Deepfakes Rapid Response Force and developing tactics for fortifying community truth.
- Deepfakes and Digital Abuse: Dismantling Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence To address the pressing problem of TFGBV, WITNESS has submitted recommendations to the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee as part of its study on TFGBV.
- Tomorrow’s Great Digital Divide: Content With or Without Provenance In a world rife with distrust of information and disinformation, tracing the source and history of the media we consume –its provenance– can inform our trust. But the reality is a significant portion of online content will always exist without traceable provenance. How do we prepare for these challenges and best mitigate potential risks and harms?
- French AI Action Summit: Critical Information Actors Must Be Centered in Public Interest AI The 2024 election year began by highlighting fears of AI’s profound societal impact on information ecosystems and ended with post-election narratives downplaying concerns about AI as exaggerated. This ignored a key truth: those most affected by AI shortcomings and harms—particularly in underserved regions and among critical frontline information actors —were overlooked, and opportunities for them […]
