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Probably not, since most news is derivative.
by brucephillips 9y ago
Probably not, since most news is derivative.
- dillondoyle 9y agoYeah I think this source of truth/verification would have to be an economy where trust and truth is the capital. For instance the WaPo can sign an article or post and PolitiFact could sign the work as factual (allow for non-binary labels). Using the ID system mentioned above, anyone could vouch for something. NyTimes would have more capital compared to some ID with low history/verification. Of course selling trust like this produces problematic externalities so this system would need large scale to overcome bad actors - if it could at all. Child works and reposts are problematic too. Maybe could nest below origin content in a blockchain. Obviously re-saving jpgs & different video wouldn't hash to original so maybe it's more like you're cryptographically signing a perma-linked piece of content which is archived in something like IPFS or on this single source of truth blockchain. Maybe this would need scale and uniformity to create content standards; common meta tags to standardize media (og:video -> ipfs:mp4). Hard to get to content outside of always changing format and code let alone dealing with content which has changed in substance. Much more difficult than just PGP sign a block of text!