Blockchain based News Application to combat Fake news

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Blockchain based News Application to combat Fake news

Mr Yashodhar Gulati1 , Mr. Gaurav Mistary 2 , Mr. Swapnesh Tilekar3 , Ms Namrata Naikwade4 1,2,3,4Department of CSE MIT ADT University Pune, India ***

Abstract Blockchain technology has opened the door to the development of distributed systems, where security is a major issue. Here, any transaction captured is permanently recorded. Over the years, some unknown sources have been publishing lies and deceptive propaganda. Due to the lack of any control systems, these problems cannot be guaranteed. Thus, these unreliable sources can publish whatever they want, and in some cases, create chaos in the community. In recent times due to the easy availability of the internet and social media, inaccurate information can spread more quickly than before. In some cases, false stories are more appealing than real ones. Therefore, people have been misled. Using the benefits of Blockchain's peer to peer network concepts, we will discuss how to track and combat non-blocking news using a blockchain-based news app.

Keywords blockchain, decentralization, news application, fake news tracing.

I. INTRODUCTION

Blockchain was a popular topic shortly after its introduction into cryptocurrency applications. Various sectors of the industry are actively trying to find this way to allocate people to their workplaces. In line with the provision of smart contract operations, sectors such as real estate, insurance, health care and much more are currently being used for their successfulimplementation.Duetothetraceability,transparencyandallocationofspaceintheblockchainenvironment,the issueofnon existentissuescanbeeffectivelyaddressed.

Disseminatingmisleadinginformationandillegalnewsonsocialnetworksrepresentsamajorproblemforresearchers andsocialnetworkserviceproviders(SNPs)[1].Also,counterfeitinformationandmisleadinginformationcantarnishthe imageofacountryandjeopardizeinternationalrelations.

With the advancement of AI technologies such as machine learning, in depth reading and digital graphics, developing viciousbotstospreadfalsenewsrepresentsamajorchallenge.AccordingtoGartner’spredictionsfor2018,morepeople willreadandbelievefalsestoriesthanrealstoriesby2020.

WhileAIhasanexcellentopportunitytodetectmisleadinginformation,itismorecapableofcreatingfalsecontenton socialmedia.Unfortunately,morerecently,theabilityofAIalgorithmstodetectfalsestoriesislowerthantheirability to constructthem.Therefore,ithasbecomeanurgentneedtoseekoutmorerobustandeffectivetechnologiestoaddressthis problem. Creating blockchain based solutions has the potential to change the way information is developed and disseminated. Blockchain can provide reliable, consistent, reliable, and transparent services for building a reliable social system.

In terms of the blockchain concept, our system will take advantage of blockchain security, consistency and transparencytocreatetrust betweenshared issues.We will providespeculation,whichcanbeappliedtolow level news programs and provide authenticity of other matters among disruptive users, meaning the institution and other relevant organizationsthatusetherecords.

II. LITERATURE SURVEY

While the blockchain offers many advantages over the current medium structure, the body involved in using it has penetratedintomajortechnologiessuchassocial media,small.Moreover itsimplementationin followingfalse newsand findingasolutiontothismisleadinginformationtransferremainslow.Authorsin[2],however,haveproposeda Proofof Trustworthiness system that uses a statistical model tomark posts as false information using data science in a news set. Otherresearchonthetopicin[3]statesthatdistributedanddistributedledgersystemsareveryeffectiveinusingaclear, consistent and authoritative data contractual record when compiling a list of peer to peer promises and information exchanges. In addition there was a study in [4] where the authors analyzed the ability to use the blockchain method to allow users to track all of their uploaded content on social networks. In addition to the previous study, the blockchain

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contributiontotheonlinecommunityisTweetChain[5].Describedasasingleblockchainmodelofasocialmediaplatform for published attachment based communication method of operation, to ensure security within the communication network.

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

Discoveringandbanningmisleadinginformationintheformofstories,articles,papersandothersourcesisadaunting task.Asthesizeofthedatabasegrows,thetimeandresourcesusedforthepurposeincrease.Thereforeatrackingsystem fromthesourceofthenewsisamust.

The proposed system follows a three tier structure in which three different bodies interact with the data and finally after the creation, process and criticism, the news block is published and marked on the blockchain. As well as the big blockchain,wealsohaveanongoingblockchainfunctionthatkeepsunfinishedblocksbyeditorsfrombeingpublishedon the big blockchain. In this project, an approved blockchain platform can provide online readers with a reliable way to verifyitscontentandsource.Theapprovedblockchainplatformcanbeusedtoverifyanyinformationregardinglivenews events,viralimagesandcontentratings.

The first body in the News Agencies model has the authority to create news and integrate it into Work in Progress Blockchain.Mediaagenciesalsohavetheabilitytoviewserversonanetworkandwhetheralargeseriesissynchronized withanetworkornot.

ThesecondbodyhaseditorswhohavetheabilitytoeditnewsandaddmediatoitwhichwillbestoredonIPFSandcan beaccessedbyhashes.Finallytheycanpublishinformationtotheblockchain.

Athird partycrowdofresearcherscanaccessnewsblocksfromthemainblockchainanddataanalysiscantargetthem asVerifiedorMisinformedwhichwillbeembeddedinthemainblockchain.

Thebenefitsofimplementingtheabovemodelinblockchainaremultiple.Someofthemare:

1. Information Traceability

2. Immutability of news blocks

3. Transparency in news sector that is of utmost importance.

4. Decentralized architecture that helps in solving the problem of single point offailure.

Evenifone ofthe nodesis down,perhaps due toa compromise ofsecuritycompromises,itis ensuredthattheentire web application continues to run smoothly and securely across all other nodes. When featured sites appear online, the latestversionoftheblockchainiscopiedcollaborativelyonthesenodesfromstablesites.

The main purpose of this application is to eliminate internal data management defects while keeping the required functionality complete. We achieve this by enabling the use of multiple servers using a blockchain to manage records linkedtocryptographichashes.Adatasearchtoolwithintheblockisalsoinstalledtodownloadstudentdataandretrieve it in JSON format. Data downloaded as such a dictionary of various keys and values while having the URL links for PDFs andimagefiles.

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V. IMPLEMENTATION

Thecurrentimplementationoftheabovementionedprojectisasfollows.

A. Connecting nodes in a network

Ourfirststepistostartallthenodesandconnectthemtothesystem.Thiswayeverynodehastheaddressesofallthe nodes in the network to which the blockchain will be synced. After the nodes are activated and configured, a sample blockchain with genesis block is generated across all different nodes. The sync function works across all nodes in the networktocheckforthelatestupdatedversionoftheblockchain.

B. Home Page and Login System

The homepage contains three categories of login to the system such as a news agency, editor or public auditor. Each entrypageisshownbelow:

Login system for News Agency

Login for Editor

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C. Creation of News Item by News Agency

Login system for Crowd Auditors.

The server information is visible on homepage Network informationabout all nodesinthe network andtheaddressofa particularserverarevisibleonthehomepage. Thisishelpfulwhentalkingaboutareaswithdisabilities.

News Item creation form.

At this stage the blockchain contains only the genesis block. The news agency then creates a news item that will be integrated into an ongoing blockchain operation which is a private blockchain. After the data is presented as input and verified,thedataisplacedinablockwithadditionalfieldssuchasindex,previoushashandtimestamp.Theprevioushash fieldofthenewlybuiltblockisverifiedwiththehashofthe entirepreviousblock.Ifbothhashesarethesame, ablockis addedtotheblockchain

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The news block is thus created in WIP Blockchain

D. Editing and publishing the news item block by the editor

Block Profile page accessed by the editor

As we can see in the picture above that the editor has the ability to edit content. The editor can also upload photos and videofilesthatwillbestoredonIPFSandwhentheblockispublished,itcanbeaccessedbyhashaddress.

ThePublishtoBlockchainactionremovesthecurrentblockfromtheWIPblockchainandinsertsitintoalargerblockchain withhasheswithfieldssuchasindex,timestampandprevioushash.

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News block successfully appended to the blockchain.

E. Verification and flagging of news item by crowd critic

Block profile view for crowd critic

As shown, the block profile page has functionality designed to mark data as false information. Critics of the mob can analyzenewsand photographicimagesandmediaaffiliatedwithIPFSandlabel itasfalseinformationifit isfoundto be inactive.

So after syncing to each server a block flag as false information will be displayed with a red banner. The current system proposestheuseofdatascienceincrowdcriticismratingswherethepostsareflaggedaccordingtothenumberofpeople markingthemasfalse.

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F. Synchronization on Multiple Servers in the network.

The home page as seen from another server with serverinfo

Asshown,nodesinasetofspecificservernodesareactiveandactive.Everyserverhasa differentaddressthathelps synctheblockchain.

Aftertheblockhasbeensuccessfullyassignedtothemainchainfromasingleserver,thisseriesisrepeatedacrossall nodes. The sync function checks the time stamp and current chain length in a node and compares it with a series of all othernodes. When a functiondetects the largest blockchainrecentlyupdated, itreplacesthe nodechain with thelargest chain found. The same function repeats for all nodes that maintain the same series as the parameter and changes each nodechainwiththemostrecentlyupdatedchain.

The chain on server 2 is unsynchronized.

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The chain synchronization function is automatically executed whenever a new node is added to the network or an existingnoderestartseitherduetomalfunctionoffromattackrecovery.Thiswaywedon’thavetomanuallyupdatedchains andkeepthetrackofthecorrectversionoftheblockchain.Manualchecksforchainsynchronizationcanalsobeadded

VI. SCOPE AND FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS

The implications of these results are likely to suggest additional blockchain algorithms for managing and controlling the distribution of online information that can be compared to those proposed. Prior to this study, the idea of using a blockchain to detect illegal news was only anecdotal. This study is limited by the absence of benchmarks and similar databases.

Ongoingactivitiesandcoursesrelatedto non speculativediscoveryandspeculationinclude multiplehackathonsand onlinecompetitions,tocreate amarketableandfeasiblemodel,validatingglobalpredictions,suchasplug inorextensions in an online browser. The current tool allows you to label news as true or suspicious, but it does not provide a rating or label ahead of time, to show loyalty, which is needed to eliminate the real problem. The proposed model provides data tracking with data science in assisting in determining the flagged sources of information that is not progressively informed.Withenoughdevelopment andtheinclusionof otherfeaturestoaddtothemodel,thefuturetoolcanlooklike this, where people can earn points for the article, and label the article and be rewarded with another form of credit accordingly.

VII. CONCLUSION

Thepurposeofthecurrentstudywastoexperimentusinganovelalgorithmbasedonthedetectionandprotectionof non misleading information and information in all online and network environments. By using a distributed and unchangingblockchainledgerwecanfindasourceofinformationthathelpsdeterminewhetherthemediasupportingthe news is trustworthy or false. After completing the news verification process by submitting fraud tests and obtaining the final,thisrating will beset highwhereverthe newsis broadcast.Blockchainverifierswho verifytestnewsareknownas minor.Youngprofessionals(e.g.,newsoutlets,journalists,etc.)arerewardedwithadditionalcreditsasa guarantee.

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