.@witnessorg Oversight Board submission on Trump suspension notes 1) All comments in light of fact that power to push #Facebook on policy change, product/technical infrastructure change, global resourcing, response to extralegal political pressure globally not granted to Board 👇
.@witnessorg Oversight Board submission: 2) Public figures need greater scrutiny on incitement to violence and hate (and misinfo/disinfo), not less. Account suspension was correct.👇 witness.org/witness-facebo…
.@witnessorg Oversight Board submission: 3) Public interest exceptions should apply to vulnerable speakers, not those in power with other speech options👇
.@witnessorg Oversight Board submission: 4) Preservation of critical speech and content that is removed from platforms can be achieved via evidence lockers👇
.@witnessorg Oversight Board submission: 5) Off-platform context and @dangerouspeech principles are critical to making decision, not optional 👇 witness.org/witness-facebo…
.@witnessorg Oversight Board submission: 6) Facebook’s rules are not clear to ordinary people: they suffer from inconsistency in application, bias and lack of appeal 👇
.@witnessorg Oversight Board submission: 7) Global enforcement requires: far greater contextual understanding, inc. beyond majority elites as well as resourcing to moderation/for civil society globally and support to content moderation workers.👇 witness.org/witness-facebo…
.@witnessorg Oversight Board submission: 8) Global enforcement requires insulation from domestic extralegal pressures that compromise Facebook in countries around world. witness.org/witness-facebo…👇
2. Quick intro for those don't know @witnessorg; work on helping anyone, anywhere using video and tech for human rights. We're focused on making you more effective, ethical and safe if you do. And that means also keeping eye out for emerging tech threats witness.org
3. Big emerging tech threats we're concerned about now are: #AI at intersection with #disinformation, #media manipulation and rising #authoritarianism. We know this is where the rubber hits the road for activists and civic witnesses on the ground.
1/ THREAD. What are possible #solutions to the threats #deepfakes and synthetic media could pose to evidence, truth and freedom of expression? Our survey from recent @witnessorg@firstdraftnews expert convening.
2/ Invest in MEDIA LITERACY + RESILIENCE/discernment for news consumers - how to spot both individual items of synthetic media (e.g. via visible anomalies such as mouth distortion often present in current deepfakes) as well as develop approaches to assessing image credibility
2/We've had fake images and CGI for years, so what's different now (beyond enabling us to transplant Nicolas Cage's face to other people). The ease of making #deepfakes is captured by the vlogger Tom Scott
3/ = Barriers to entry to manipulate audio and video are falling - costs less, needs less tech expertise, uses open-source code + cloud computing power. Plus, sophistication of manipulation of social media spaces by bad actors makes it easier to weaponize and to micro-target.