Case Study: Amnesty International verifies human rights reports faster with Signal monitor from Signal Media

How Amnesty International uses Signal monitor to verify eyewitness reports of human rights violations

Amnesty International uses Signal Media’s Signal Monitor to help its Digital Verification Corps verify eyewitness reports of human rights violations shared on social media. The team needed a faster, more efficient way to sift through large volumes of often distressing content, cross-reference posts with official statements and reputable news sources, and replace an inefficient TweetDeck Lists workflow.

Using Signal Media’s Signal Monitor, the team can quickly search by location and date, surface local and obscure news sources, translate non-English content, export relevant article links, and set real-time alerts for breaking news. The result has been a substantial reduction in verification time and effort, and the team was able to quickly corroborate an extrajudicial execution video in Mexico by finding a local Spanish-language report, helping Amnesty International build evidence for an investigation.

Amnesty International

Sam Dubberley

Digital Verification Corps