Delighted to be speaking at journalism festival this year - about justice and accountability for war crimes and the admissibility of open source evidence from conflicts - alongside the best in the field: Nick Waters Sam Dubberley Megha Rajagopalan. Come say hi!
#ijf24 #OSINT Bellingcat Human Rights Watch

Our founder Nighat Dad is at Skoll Foundation world forum. If you are attending catch her via Skoll world forum app. Her talk is on how Misinformation has made the truth more difficult to discern along side Sam Gregory Imran Ahmed, Mevan Babakar | مێڤان Patricia Campos Mello skoll.wf/4cRLwfp

I'm so thrilled to announce the launch of The AI Spotlight Series, a program I designed with the Pulitzer Center to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting over the next two years. All trainings will be FREE & mostly virtual. Register now to join us! pulitzercenter.org/focus-areas/in…

For years, local election workers have been drowning in records requests from people looking for evidence of election fraud. Experts worry that GenAI, which can generate freedom of information requests in seconds, could make that worse

wired.com/story/ai-chatb…

🔴SAVE THE DATE!
'Building trust through content authenticity'
#ijf24  with
Ginny Badanes
Sam Gregory
Dalia Hashim
Giovanni Severini
📽️Live & On Demand > Sat, 20 Apr
journalismfestival.com/programme/2024…

Misinformation has made the truth more difficult to discern for citizens heading to the polls. Join Imran Ahmed, Mevan Babakar | مێڤان, Nighat Dad, Sam Gregory, and Patricia Campos Mello this week to explore how we can reclaim truth and safeguard democracy. Register: skoll.wf/4cRLwfp #SkollWF

Honored to be among the Featured Speakers at the 2024 Skoll World Forum in Oxford! Don't miss your chance to hear me & other global leaders discuss solutions to the world's biggest problems ONLINE April 9-12. Register for free by TODAY April 8 📨 skoll.wf/49niy4E #skollwf

Can LLM Generated Misinformarion Be Detected?
tl;dr: Not really.
This is not good news.

On “Where’s Daddy?” :
A particular horror of civil or counter-insurgency warfare is the way in which it exploits and poisons family ties.
Here is Yeames’ celebrated painting ‘And When Did You Last See Your Father?’ It depicts… 🧵

The deployment of police facial recognition vans in public places, scanning everyone who walks past in case we are on a watch list, requires a renegotiation of the social contract. Utility to the police force is one factor in making this choice, but it's far from the only one.

This genre of 'secretly he's very sad about this' stuff is taking on a bit of a 'behind the scenes Jared and Ivanka are doing their best to...' vibe

I spoke to @npr this week about some key steps to avoid being April Fool-ed in the age of AI

....incorporating a mention of the Easter Bunny image with which I inveigled my kids last year.

npr.org/2024/04/01/124…

🌍⚖️ International #Justice systems need our movements to shape #HumanRights policies, engage with communities & make an impact.

library.witness.org stands testament to the power of collective knowledges & how learning can be a lateral experience💡🤌🏾🙌🏾

#UnlearnLearning

'Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.' gizmodo.com/amazon-reporte…

En 2023 nos encontramos en #Bogotá +25 periodistas, verificadorxs, tecnólogxs y activistas para hablar sobre oportunidades y amenazas que hemos observado en la región frente a la #IAgenerativa , la #ViolenciaDeGénero fue uno de los temas que discutimos wit.to/reporte_bogota…

Happy international fact-checking day! This Thursday, I'm hosting a webinar with Poynter on using Telegram in investigations or fact-checks.

This primer will be ideal for those who have never used Telegram before or used it occasionally and want to go deeper. It's free, sign up!

I’m honored / humbled / flabbergasted that I’m the opening keynote for National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Social Media and Disinformation - organized by Nobel Winner in Physics Saul Perlmutter and the pride of Saugus and brilliant researcher Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫 🏳️‍🌈. Join us👇🏽

' #AprilFoolsDay jokes in general don't try to persuade your politics or make you angry or target the negative emotions that are dangerous online.' - NLP's Dan Evon

Today can be a fun day to practice #NewsLiteracy skills. Dan & Sam Gregory with tips

npr.org/2024/04/01/124…

En 2023 nos encontramos en #Bogotá +25 periodistas, verificadorxs, tecnólogxs y activistas para hablar sobre oportunidades y amenazas que hemos observado en la región frente a la #IAgenerativa , la #ViolenciaDeGénero fue uno de los temas que discutimos wit.to/reporte_bogota…

The Sunday Sport asking the important questions no other publications dare ask. (She’s married, lads)