Tracing the Source of News Based on Blockchain

Shang, Wenqian; Liu, Mengyu; Lin, Weiguo; Jia, Minzheng

doi:10.1109/icis.2018.8466516

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“…There are numerous design challenges in developing an effective blockchain-based solution for combating fake news and misinformation, which remain unaddressed in the literature. Various current proposals aiming at using blockchain for fake news or false information prevention (e.g., [6], [8], [13]) mainly used hashing but a simple hash based approach may not work in a practical setting, as hashing is very sensitive to noise and can result in a different hash if there is change of a character or even a single bit. This pitfall is acknowledged in [6] as a limitation of their proposed system.…”

Section: Fake News Prevention Using Blockchain: a Solution Bluepmentioning

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Using Blockchain to Rein in the New Post-Truth World and Check the Spread of Fake News

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In recent years, "fake news" has become a global issue that raises unprecedented challenges for human society and democracy. This problem has arisen due to the emergence of various concomitant phenomena such as (1) the digitization of human life and the ease of disseminating news through social networking applications (such as Facebook and WhatsApp); (2) the availability of "big data" that allows customization of news feeds and the creation of polarized so-called "filter-bubbles"; and (3) the rapid progress made by generative machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms in creating realistic-looking yet fake digital content (such as text, images, and videos). There is a crucial need to combat the rampant rise of fake news and disinformation. In this paper, we propose a high-level overview of a blockchain-based framework for fake news prevention and highlight the various design issues and consideration of such a blockchain-based framework for tackling fake news.

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Section: Fake News Prevention Using Blockchain: a Solution Bluepmentioning

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Using Blockchain to Rein in the New Post-Truth World and Check the Spread of Fake News

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“…In terms of blockchain implementation, several works have been proposed to trace the origin of news article by using a decentralized blockchain framework [4,18]. Moving the work ahead in this direction, blockchain has been used a tool along with other frameworks [2,14,17] to combat the spread of fake news.…”

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Crowd Sourcing and Blockchain-Based Incentive Mechanism to Combat Fake News

Farooq

Makhdomi

Gillani

2021

Studies in Computational Intelligence

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With advancing technology, social media sites have become narratives for news surfacing the digital world. Social media users generally have no qualm for forwarding whatever comes their way. The flexibility of social media platforms offers no way to prove the credibility of a shared piece of information. The authenticity of the news and maintaining netiquette over social media sites have become precedence areas. This has challenged the technology in maintaining the ethics and objectivity of journalism. This chapter presents a shared, decentralized framework that implements an alternate vision to the customary way people share information. In particular, we provide an innovative blockchain and crowd sourcing-based framework for demonstrating the provenance of news surfacing through digital media. Under this platform, the truth is sourced from the crowd, stored, and consequently transformed into a real-time interface. Moreover, using the immutable feature of blockchain, all users are made accountable and valued based on their reputation. Further, nodes are provided with incentives for their rightful behavior and are penalized for their malicious actions. Thus, we aim to offer a much-needed layer for secure, reliable information exchange in our present-day social media infrastructure that does not rely on a single source of truth. IntroductionReading and watching the news has been an important way for individuals to keep themselves informed about the world and current affairs. Traditionally newspapers, radio, and television were the medium through which people consumed information.

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“…Although the solution solves the provenance issue, its ability to find digital deception is rather limited. j) Traceability: Shang et al [18] trace the source of news by keeping a ledger of timestamps and the connections between the different blocks. The proposed procedure is as follows.…”

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Fake News, Disinformation, and Deepfakes: Leveraging Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchain to Combat Digital Deception and Counterfeit Reality

Fraga‐Lamas¹,

Fernández‐Caramés²

2020

IT Prof.

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The rise of ubiquitous deepfakes, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and post-truth, often referred to as fake news, raises concerns over the role of Internet and social media in modern democratic societies. Due to its rapid and widespread diffusion, digital deception has not only an individual or societal cost (e.g., to hamper the integrity of elections), but it can lead to significant economic losses (e.g., to affect stock market performance) or to risks to national security. Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) guarantee the provenance, authenticity and traceability of data by providing a transparent, immutable and verifiable record of transactions while creating a peer-to-peer secure platform for storing and exchanging information. This overview aims to explore the potential of DLTs and blockchain to combat digital deception, reviewing initiatives that are currently under development and identifying their main current challenges. Moreover, some recommendations are enumerated to guide future researchers on issues that will have to be tackled to face fake news, disinformation and deepfakes, as an integral part of strengthening the resilience against cyber-threats on today's online media.

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Tracing the Source of News Based on Blockchain

Cited by 31 publications

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Using Blockchain to Rein in the New Post-Truth World and Check the Spread of Fake News

Using Blockchain to Rein in the New Post-Truth World and Check the Spread of Fake News

Crowd Sourcing and Blockchain-Based Incentive Mechanism to Combat Fake News

Fake News, Disinformation, and Deepfakes: Leveraging Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchain to Combat Digital Deception and Counterfeit Reality

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