Indian Media Leverages Blockchain Tech to Verify General Election News
A Taiwanese blockchain tech firm is teaming up with journalists to fact-check the upcoming election in India in a battle against digital deception.
Numbers Protocol says it employed the same approach during the 2020 US presidential election and the Jan. 2024 Taiwan presidential elections.
In the lead-up to the Indian general election starting April 19, a collaborative effort will see partnered news outlets and photojournalists capture content on location. This content will then be uploaded onto a blockchain platform using Numbers Protocol’s suite of tools, specifically Capture Cam and Capture Dashboard.
These tools aim to enhance the credibility of captured digital media by detecting potential manipulation attempts through artificial intelligence.
Beyond professional journalists, Numbers Protocol has invited civil society organizations to contribute by using the Capture application.
The platform automatically associates all user-generated content with provenance data. This embedded data empowers media organizations to verify the authenticity of such content efficiently.
Numbers Protocol co-founder Tammy Yang shed light on the company’s approach to detecting deepfakes and manipulated media. She told Cryptonews that all content submitted by news outlets and photojournalists undergo a blockchain registration process.
This allows users to upload the content to a verification engine powered by an AI model. The model then compares the uploaded content to a database of similar content. If the content originates from a trusted source, the engine will display an exact match.
Conversely, content from unverified sources will be compared against similar content from established sources. This will highlight potential discrepancies and
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