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TRUSTD: Combat Fake Content using Blockchain and Collective Signature Technologies

Jaroucheh, Zakwan; Alissa, Mohamad; Buchanan, William J; Liu, Xiaodong

Authors

Mohamad Alissa



Abstract

The growing trend of sharing news/contents, through social media platforms and the World Wide Web has been seen to impact our perception of the truth, altering our views about politics, economics, relationships, needs and wants. This is because of the growing spread of misinformation and disinformation intentionally or unintentionally by individuals and organizations. This trend has grave political, social, ethical, and privacy implications for society due to 1) the rapid developments in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms in creating realistic-looking yet fake digital content (such as text, images, and videos), 2) the ability to customize the content feeds and to create a polarized so-called “filter-bubbles” leveraging the availability of the big-data. Therefore, there is an ethical need to combat the flow of fake content. This paper attempts to resolves some of the aspects of this combat by presenting a high-level overview of TRUSTD, a blockchain and collective signature based ecosystem to help content creators in getting their content backed by the community, and to help users judge on the credibility and correctness of these contents.

Citation

Jaroucheh, Z., Alissa, M., Buchanan, W. J., & Liu, X. (2020). TRUSTD: Combat Fake Content using Blockchain and Collective Signature Technologies. In 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2020) (1215-1220)

Conference Name 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2020)
Conference Location Online
Start Date Jul 13, 2020
End Date Jul 17, 2020
Acceptance Date Jul 1, 2020
Publication Date Aug 1, 2020
Deposit Date Sep 10, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages 1215-1220
Book Title 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2020)
ISBN 978-1-7281-7303-0
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2685662
Publisher URL https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2020/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2020/07/compsac2020_frontmatter.pdf

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