{"id":174418,"date":"2023-10-20T00:06:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-develop-possible-solution-to-disinformation"},"modified":"2023-10-20T00:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T05:06:48","slug":"researchers-develop-possible-solution-to-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-develop-possible-solution-to-disinformation","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Develop Possible Solution to Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-possible-solution-to-disinformation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is also available in: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-hls.com\/he\/archives\/121322\" class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i-hls.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sitepress-multilingual-cms\/res\/flags\/he.png\" alt=\"he\" title=\"\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea\"> \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea (Hebrew)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Waterloo\u2019s Faculty of Engineering are developing a first-of-its-kind innovative system against fake news that relies on blockchain. Their goal? A world where people have greater trust in the news they see and hear.<\/p>\n<p>It is already known that disinformation \u2013 especially digitally created \u2013 poses a great threat to democracy. There is evidence fake news could have influenced important world events like Brexit, the 2016 US elections, the Russia-Ukraine war, etc. Big tech companies like Facebook and Google have been trying to establish policies to prevent the spread of disinformation on their platforms, with limited success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is also available in: \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea (Hebrew) Researchers from the University of Waterloo\u2019s Faculty of Engineering are developing a first-of-its-kind innovative system against fake news that relies on blockchain. Their goal? A world where people have greater trust in the news they see and hear. It is already known that disinformation \u2013 especially digitally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}