Detection of False Information in Digital Media Using Blockchain Technology

The spreading of false information over the internet, highly impacts society and causes social and economic loss to the nation. One of the most important factors for the increase in the number of misleading information is that all the users of any particular digital platform usually do not verify the authenticity of the information. The principal impartial of this proposed work is to afford a solution to society to reduce the social and economic losses caused by spreading false information circulated digitally. Blockchain is a disseminated, decentralized network that conducts peer-to-peer transactions, meaning that it does not have a central entity to operate. Here we present a literature survey on various approaches towards this problem statement and investigate a Blockchain-based solution that focuses on all types of digital content by providing the end user to validate the information along with the evidence for data that was collected at each step