News & Media

Starling Lab dispatch from Riana Pfefferkorn’s Stanford talk, arguing that the threat of deepfake evidence is overstated and that the Federal Rules of Evidence already contain the necessary tools to a

Navigate the complex landscape of AI transparency with our guide to upcoming synthetic media laws. Learn how the EU, US, and China are regulating deepfakes and content provenance.

A mock trial at Inner Temple tests new standards for authenticating open-source material – and reveals what happens when cryptographic metadata meets centuries-old legal tradition.

With US leadership waning and AI technology advancing rapidly, international legal scholars gather at Leiden University to draft urgent guidance for judges confronting synthetic evidence.

Our contribution to the UN Special Rapporteur's report to the Human Rights Council

From cryptographic proofs to newsroom policy—key takeaways and speaker highlights from our recent event on campus with Stanford HAI

Takeaways from our international law and technology experts roundtable at Georgetown, with Hala Systems and the U.S. State Department’s Office for Global Criminal Justice.

Insights and Discussions on Ensuring Authenticity in Digital Evidence

Addressing the risks and solutions for authenticating open-source imagery in the emerging age of synthetic media.

Starling Lab and Hala Systems offer to the UN OHCHR a decentralized approach to sharing evidence, the “Index for Accountability.”

Our joint submission to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine includes evidence of displacement of Ukrainian children as well as an original nuclear monitoring dataset.

The "New Frontiers in Evidence" conference at the Inner Temple brought together leading experts to discuss the challenges and advancements in the use of user-generated evidence in legal contexts. Highlights included keynote insights from Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat and sessions on digital evidence authentication, ethical considerations, and innovative investigative methodologies.

A new report, presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council, cites work of the Starling Lab for Data Integrity and Hala Systems as an emerging good practice to protect the universal right to education.

Ahead of a DFRLab report studying pro-Kremlin news articles, we preserved this evidence base for later review and potential accountability. This archiving run tested the scale at which we could forensically preserve web pages.

Screenshots aren't enough. Secure court-ready web evidence with verifiable metadata, hashing, and an unbreakable chain of custody.

The testimony of a primary observer’s supervisor could help bridge the evidentiary gap. Supervisory testimony would consolidate the institutional knowledge of the chain of custody of specific pieces of digital evidence in a single person.