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The map
Reports are geotagged, timestamped, and placed. What draws attention is corroboration, not popularity. Engagement never appears here. There are no likes on the map.
WITNESS · LIVE EVENT MAP
A live verified map of the world.
Not scraped. Not aggregated. Captured by the people who were standing there.
Witness is a reporting network. People capture what is happening where they are, verification begins at capture, and confidence builds as independent evidence arrives.
WHY THIS EXISTS
A border crossing closed and nobody knew why.
November 2025, on foot at Siret, between Ukraine and Romania. The crossing closed with no explanation. The soldiers standing at the barrier did not know why either. Everyone waited.
A day later, a Ukrainian newspaper reported that a Russian drone had struck the Orlivka crossing the night before.
Everyone at that border was inside the event and outside the information. That gap is the company.
ONE NETWORK, TWO SURFACES
A map for the world. A feed for everything around it.
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The feed
Context, analysis, and discussion around what the map is showing. Chronological by default, with ranking you can opt into rather than ranking imposed on you.
TWO CONTENT TYPES
Two kinds of content. Only one of them is evidence.
REPORTS
Firsthand, geotagged, timestamped, and governed by the trust system. Every report goes on the map. Advertising never appears against a report or a report pin.
POSTS
Commentary, context, analysis, reaction. Lighter scrutiny, author's choice whether it appears on the map, with a distinct marker.
HOW TRUST WORKS
Verification begins at capture.
Most systems try to verify a file after it has travelled. By then the useful signals are gone. Witness collects them at the moment of recording, then treats everything that arrives afterwards as evidence that moves confidence rather than as a vote that settles the question.
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Capture
Device, time, and location signals are collected at the moment of recording rather than asserted afterwards.
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Standing
A contributor's record is scored separately from any single report, so a strong history cannot carry a weak claim and one contested report does not undo a strong history.
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Independent corroboration
Independent evidence raises confidence. Evidence that is not independent counts for less. Ten accounts repeating one source is not ten pieces of evidence, and the system treats it accordingly.
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Confidence, not verdicts
Witness shows how confident the system is and what moved it. It does not declare what is true. Where evidence conflicts, a claim stops being promoted rather than being removed, because falsely burying a real report is the worse failure.
FOR REPORTERS
Your footage stays yours.
Witness never commissions coverage, never assigns a story, and never sends anyone anywhere. We are the marketplace and the verification layer, not the publisher. When a newsroom or an organization licenses something you captured, 70 percent goes to you.
- You own the file. Licensing is per use, and you set availability.
- Exact coordinates are never published. Reports resolve to a place, not to an address.
- VPN use is never held against you.
- Facial recognition is never used, under any circumstances.
FOR REPORTERS →
FOR NEWSROOMS
Footage that arrives with its provenance attached.
Every licensable file carries the capture record and the confidence history behind it, and you can reach the person who shot it directly.
FOR NEWSROOMS →
THE EVENTS LAYER
Structured events, with confidence and provenance, over an API.
Geotagged, timestamped, categorized events with confidence scores and a provenance record, delivered as JSON and filterable by region, category, time, and confidence.
FOR DATA TEAMS →
NON-NEGOTIABLE
Structural, not editorial.
- 01Advertising never appears against a report or a report pin.
- 02Ranking may reorder. It never excludes.
- 03Location and network signals are never used to penalize a contributor.
- 04No facial recognition, under any circumstances.
- 05No blockchain, token, or decentralized protocol.
- 06Buyers receive events, never identities.
The world is happening now.
Reporters, newsrooms, and data teams can request access.