Decentralized News Publication Platform

Abstract

Fake News has become a huge alarming issue since the previous few years.It can be used to influence people on any political, economical or social topics and change people’s thoughts on a particular subject. We’re using a blockchain based technique to overcome this problem. More specifically the proposed approach uses concepts of customized proof of authority and proof of truthfulness consensus algorithm serving as an incentive mechanism to determine the integrity of fake news. As Blockchain is a decentralized system no one will be able to tamper with the original news. Also, we are maintaining the reputation score of each organization. Due to fear of lowering credibility score, no one will produce fake news and the probability of fake news getting viral will be reduced. This platform which is a blockchain based Decentralized application can provide normal readers on the platform with a reliable way of verifying the content and the source by which it gets published. Our work demonstrates that the solutions proposed in this paper ensure data integrity, data security, data transparency, and data traceability by consideration of such a blockchain-based framework for tackling fake news. Key Words: Decentralized Applications, Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, Decentralized Exchange, Peer To Peer, Ethereum Virtual Machine