New York Times says Fake-News the fight: Hyper Ledger Fabric to help

The New York Times in its fight against Fake News on Blockchain technology from home Hyper Ledger. In the course of its pilot initiative, The News from the Provenance Project, the newspaper wants to build a decentralized platform for metadata of media content. By using information, such as Publication or the original sources if you want to prevent the Manipulation of photos. In the long term, this should give consumers confidence in legitimate messages back.

By David Barkhausen
24. July 2019BTC$9.883,00 -1.21%part Facebook Twitter LinkedIn xing mail

For media professionals worldwide, they are probably the most disturbing concomitant phenomenon of the Internet: Fake News. At the latest since the US election in 2016, and according to observers, under a decisive influence of one-sided, targeted misinformation, especially on social networks confessed to have attempts on the manipulation today, everyone is talking about. However, contrary to public debate the power of conspiracy theories is not young, “alternative facts” and, more recently, even crafty, edited images, or Videos.

The New York Times, one of the flagship of international journalism, has been fighting for years on the Front line against Fake News. The fight for legitimate messages also Blockchain technology is supposed to support it now.

In the Wake of the recent Initiative of the newspaper, the News Provenance Project (TNPP), want to build the New York is now a platform for media content, to the entire news industry should have access to. The newspaper metadata of the publications – for example, the date of the publication is to secure – to Hyper Ledger-Fabric-block chains.

in the Future, so the author and origin as well as context information for editors understandable and transparent to be. Consumers, in turn, you want to guarantee with a signal system, that the data used have been tested on the platform. Support the development team receives from the Software giant IBM.

of All the Hype aside, the Blockchain provides mechanisms for the exchange of information [ … ] which, in our opinion, of crucial importance to ensure their origin and to maintain

the newspaper by the technical backbone of the project is convinced.

newspaper wants to banish image manipulation in the past,

The beginning of shared data is to first of all make pictures, and photos. These are used in the Internet often and manipulations fall prey to. In order to guarantee consumers that the press photos in the Original, be true to your content and news value used in the signal system. On the basis of which the user can determine the authenticity of the images directly. Such signals look like in the future, the developers sometimes open.

This is ambitious. A successful outcome would ultimately require the participation of a large part of the media ecosystem to ensure that the solutions [work] for all Concerned,

the developer of the necessary scale of your project be aware of. Because it is only when the image materials are widely read on the platform, and can be used to secure the authenticity, without a doubt. Whether such a global effort succeeds, however, is quite questionable. An important step will therefore be the participation of the major news agencies, which media houses to supply the globe with image material.

The project, interested parties are now being called on to work together with the New Yorkers on TNPP. By the end of 2019, the newspaper wants to present a viable Proof-of-Concept.

Then it should at least be technically clear, as the Blockchain technology, and thus the immutability and decentralization of image information groups of users trust in media content should return. Ultimately, it are the users themselves, the latter being the focus of the project. If the Initiative has no more value, fail TNPP, the New York Times.

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