Blockchain-based fake news traceability and verification mechanism

Heliyon. 2023 Jun 15;9(7):e17084. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17084. eCollection 2023 Jul.

Abstract

The rapid development of the Internet and Internet of Things has rapidly introduced human society into the information age, and the way of fake news production has been updated, which has greatly affected the normal life of human beings. In order to identify worthless fake news and trace massive fake news data from unknown sources, and share valuable news data to fully disseminate effective real news, news owners usually store news data in cloud. Users of IoT terminals can access news data on demand without storing it locally. However, the authenticity of the fictive newspaper numbers source, which is easy to destroy, and the social media platform. Besides, when massive news data is saved on cloud server, the news owners have to at the risk of lose physical control over news data and it will face the risk of fake news being disseminated and real news being falsified. Thus, this paper proposes a novel mechanism for secure storage of news data using blockchain technology. Firstly, traceability and verification of fake news data is improved by the cooperative storage model on and off the chain. Secondly due to the inability of past polynomial commitment to update the commitment, we will be a hindrance to use polynomial commitment to build a secure authentication protocol. Therefore, in this paper, we design the update algorithm for polynomial commitment in order to be able to guarantee the consistency of on-chain and blockchain database news data.

Keywords: Blockchain; Fake news data; Polynomial commitment.

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