Developing a system for securely time-stamping and visualizing the changes made to online news content
Waqar Detho

TL;DR
This paper proposes a decentralized system that securely time-stamps online news articles using blockchain technology, enabling verification of authenticity and preventing manipulation of archived digital news content.
Contribution
It introduces a novel system that leverages blockchain for trusted timestamping of online news, addressing manipulation and authenticity verification issues.
Findings
Successfully implemented blockchain-based timestamping for news articles
Enables verification of article authenticity through multiple online versions
Prevents manipulation of archived online news content
Abstract
Nowadays, the Internet is indispensable when it comes to information dissemination. People rely on the Internet to inform themselves on current news events, as well as to verify facts. We, as a community, are quickly approaching an 'electronic information age' where the majority of information will be distributed electronically and tools to preserve this information will become essential. While archiving online digital information is a good way to preserve online information for future generations, it has many disadvantages including the easy manipulation of archived information, e.g. by the archiving authority. Online information is also prone to getting hacked or being taken offline. Therefore, it is necessary that archived online news information is securely time-stamped with the date and time when it was first archived in a way that cannot be manipulated. The process of 'trusted…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Data Storage Technologies · Digital and Cyber Forensics · Web Data Mining and Analysis
