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WITNESS
Fatima Anwar is a Pakistani researcher, filmmaker, and lawyer. She currently serves as the Press and Communications Manager at WITNESS, a leading video, technology, and human rights organization. An important part of WITNESS’ current work revolves around the human rights implications of deepfakes and generative AI – with a specific focus on defending the trust basis of audiovisual media. In the past, Anwar has done extensive work on digital hate speech, incitement to violence, and civic interventions through animated explainers and storytelling. She worked on two award-winning short films, Swipe and Shehr-e-Tabassum, that contend with the intersection of technology, authoritarianism, and extrajudicial violence. She was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Hashiya, a Pakistani critical histories channel with a focus on colonialism, violent histories, and intergenerational trauma. She is a regular contributor to The Funambulist, a Paris-based magazine on the politics of space and bodies.
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