This morning, Twitter announced they had joined The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a group dedicated to addressing disinformation, misinformation and online content fraud.

Founded by Adobe, Arm, BBC, Intel, Microsoft and TruePic, C2PA is tackling these problems by developing technical standards to certify the source and history, or provenance, of media content.

Twitter has been a strong partner in the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) since its launch in 2019, notably participating as a co-author of the CAI’s technical white paper released in 2020. As a member of the C2PA steering committee, Twitter will contribute its deep expertise to how technical specifications are built, ensuring that the new digital provenance standard can be deployed at social media scale, and in the most useable way possible for consumers. 

“We are thrilled to welcome Twitter to the C2PA as we pursue broad adoption of an open standard that will help build trust and transparency online,” said Dana Rao, General Counsel and Content Authenticity Initiative executive sponsor, Adobe. “As a valuable contributor to Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative, Twitter shares our deep commitment to working with partners in developing a standardized solution that can effectively scale across hardware, software and social media platforms.” 

“Supporting the health and integrity of the public conversation is a top priority at Twitter,” said Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Global Head of Site Integrity.Misinformation is an industry- and society-wide challenge, and we are excited to partner with the other steering committee members of C2PA to develop standards that will ultimately empower people to better assess the origin and authenticity of the media content they encounter online.”

“C2PA was founded with the goal of creating the interoperable standards that are essential to ensuring end-to-end media provenance and authentication,” said Andrew Jenks, C2PA Chair. “We welcome Twitter to the effort and look forward to their wealth of experience to help validate that the solution we build will work at world-wide scale.”

As previously announced, C2PA will develop content provenance specifications for common asset types and formats to enable publishers, creators and consumers to trace the origin and evolution of a piece of media, including images, videos, audio and documents. The C2PA’s open standard will give platforms a method to preserve and read provenance-based digital content. In addition to the inclusion of varied media types, C2PA is driving an end-to-end provenance experience from the capturing device to the consumer. Collaboration with chipmakers, news organizations and software and platform companies is critical in facilitating a comprehensive provenance standard and driving broad adoption across the content ecosystem.