A new approach to crowd journalism using a blockchain-based infrastructure
Leonardo Teixeira, Ivone Amorim, Alexandre Ulisses Silva, João Correia Lopes, Vasco Filipe · 2020
The significant evolution of smartphones has given ordinary people the power to create good-quality content which can then be spread, by the press, over multiple platforms. Citizens are almost always the first ones to arrive at a breaking news location and can provide the initial images of the scene. However, existing crowdsourced tools and platforms are predominantly centralized and are usually fed with unreliable and untrustworthy information.